N. T. Wright Quotes

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist

Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.

Each material has its own message.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

If it sells, it's art.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey.

No stream rises higher than its source