N. T. Wright Quotes

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

We are created by being destroyed.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

Let all children come unto me.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

Half the people you know are below average.

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

Clones are people two.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.