Best John Shelby Spong Sayings
- I experience God as the power of love. Experience
- It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. Appears
- It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish. Accomplish
- Mother Nature is not sweet. Environmental
- My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be… Challenge
- The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. Christianity
- I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into… Been
- The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found… Alumni
- The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred… Banished
- The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way… Began
- The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the… Believe
- What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore. Accept
- ...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness. Death
- The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. Church
- God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems… All
- I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son. Around Killing
- ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If… Accept
- I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the… All
- The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was… Answered
- Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation,… Achieving
- Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book… Any
- There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this… Any
- Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be… Actually Lived
- Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the… Becoming
- I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet… Billion
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