"The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen……" — John Shelby Spong
"The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen."
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90 Quotes by John Shelby Spong
John Shelby Spong has 90 quotes on this site.
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Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance…
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
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The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed…
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on…
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Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The…
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then…
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The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in…
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All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of…
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Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
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I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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