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Human Quotes by John Shelby Spong
- Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
- The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view…
- All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on…
- 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…
- The way you become divine is to become wholly human
- Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another
- The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
- 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…
- The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It…
- I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong