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Bible Quotes by John Shelby Spong
- The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
- 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…
- ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If…
- Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the…
- When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.…
- The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life…
- The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and…
More Bible Quotes
- I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
- Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible. — Javier Bardem
- It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only… — Albert Barnes
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams
- I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an… — Joe Barton
- The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan
- The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell
- Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. — William Blake
- My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for… — Elayne Boosler
- If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is… — Dan Brown