N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.