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Christianity Quotes by John Shelby Spong
- If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that…
- I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to…
- I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.
- Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push…
- The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.
- 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,…
- 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…
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