N. T. Wright Covenant Quotations

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.