N. T. Wright Quotes

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

Stories are the shortcut to the heart.

The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

If I immerse myself in the scriptures...I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more. I find it easier to abide their counsel.

To survive, you must tell stories.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Story is the language of the heart.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.