"The hope for life after death must be……" — John Shelby Spong
"The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior."
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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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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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The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your…
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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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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
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