N. T. Wright Quotes

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Death does not exist.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

I believe in life after death.

If there's a heaven, I would probably go. I've actually a very nice person.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.