N. T. Wright Quotes

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.