Found Quote by John Shelby Spong Download Open image “Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another” — John Shelby Spong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Found Hate Humans Nature of man Wholeness
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest? — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are… — Janez Drnovsek Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human. — David Abram Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other. — William James Copy Share Image
The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
