Paul for Everyone Quotes

“The line between good and evil runs, not between ‘us’ and ‘them’, but down the middle of each of us.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8

“In fact, the resistance to such claims may well come from the constant impulse to resist the Lordship of Jesus, the one through whom it is accomplished. Paul lived in a world where other ‘lords’ reigned supreme, and resented alternative candidates for their position. So do we. ROMANS”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8

“But Paul’s vision of God’s love, rising here like the sun on a clear summer’s morning, shines through all the detail that has gone before. You need to wake up early, to get out of bed, and to throw back the curtains, to see it; that’s what the previous four chapters are about. But now that we have done all that, the view is here for us to enjoy. And to be dazzled by. God’s love has done everything we could need, everything we shall need.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8

“But people often forget (though Paul makes it crystal clear) that ‘justification by faith’ is a truth about the present time, about how you can tell in the present, in advance of the future judgment, who God’s people really are – and therefore how you can know that you, too, belong to that people, that your own sins really have been forgiven. But whenever Paul looks at the future day of judgment, which is what our present passage is about, he remains equally clear. The future judgment will take place on the basis of the entire life a person has led. He has already said this in the previous passage (2.7–10). He repeats it in 14.10. Some”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8

“Romans 5–8 is, from one point of view, all about hope: the solid, sure hope that all those who belong to God through faith in his action in Jesus are assured of final salvation.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8

“We mustn’t imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8

“Put like that, of course, it seems absurd; and yet the absurdity lies in the attempt to picture God as just like us only a bit bigger and more all-seeing.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One: Chapters 1-8