N T Wright

Training in godliness is emphatically not what people today expect or want to hear. We expect and want to be told that “spirituality” is simply the sense I have of being in God’s presence, being surrounded with his love, sensing a transcendent dimension in the affairs of everyday life. It comes as a shock to be told that it’s something you have to work at-and something, moreover, which will take the same kind of hard work as going into training for athletics.