N. T. Wright Quotes
No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.
Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.
Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.
More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.
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.
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.
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.
I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."
Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."
Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.
I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.
Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.
The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.
