N. T. Wright Quotes

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

Everyone in their car needs love.

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Why are they called a-part-ments, when they're all stuck together?

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.

I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.

I think one of the things the church service means is hope.

Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

The speed of time is one second per second.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

A fool and his money are soon partying.

People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.