N. T. Wright Quotes

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

I believe God will make a way.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for a better ordering of the universe.

Man was not made for the world, but the world for man.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

I believe that God will provide in his own way.

I've seen God work in my life, and I know what he's capable of, and I know what he does for his people that love him.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.