It isn’t that, like suicide bombers, people who believe in the resurrection are more cheerful about dying for the cause because they are happy to leave this present world and escape into a glorious future. It is, rather, that people who believe in the the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.
— NT Wright, Surprised by Hope
