N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters Quotes
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.
Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.
The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.
We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.
Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.