N. T. Wright Quotes

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

If heat rises, then heaven must be hotter than hell

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

One war only breeds another.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.