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Experience Quotes by John Shelby Spong
- I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather…
- So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we…
- Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always…
- I experience God as the power of love.
- I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to…
- I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a…
- Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some…
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
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- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila