Love Quotes by John Shelby Spong

16 Love quotes by John Shelby Spong

All Love quotes John Shelby Spong’s page

Spong’s 16 reflections read like a quiet sermon on affection, each one probing the spiritual layers of love. The tone is thoughtful, inviting you to consider love beyond the surface.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

John Shelby Spong

Image

I can only give away the love that I have received.

John Shelby Spong

Image

I experience God as the power of love.

John Shelby Spong

Image

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

John Shelby Spong

Image

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life…

John Shelby Spong

Image

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live,…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God.…

John Shelby Spong

Image

If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You…

John Shelby Spong

Image

My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my…

John Shelby Spong

Image

Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us…

John Shelby Spong

Image

In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into…

John Shelby Spong

Image

Other authors on Love

More by John Shelby Spong

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

John Shelby Spong

Image

The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

John Shelby Spong

Image

“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

John Shelby Spong

Image

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

John Shelby Spong

Image

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

John Shelby Spong

Image

We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are…

John Shelby Spong

Image

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time,…

John Shelby Spong

Image

We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and…

John Shelby Spong

Image

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong…

John Shelby Spong

Image

The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.

John Shelby Spong

Image

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me…

John Shelby Spong

Image

I find it fascinating that Paul [the apostol], writing to the Galatians, responds to the question, "What does it mean to live in Christ?"…

John Shelby Spong

Image