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I believe that God is very real. (John Shelby Spong)
I can only give away the love that I have received. View quote
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The way you become divine is to become wholly human. View quote
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Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade. View quote
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. View quote
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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. View quote
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Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state. View quote
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It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish. View quote
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. View quote
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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. View quote
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God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny. (John Shelby Spong)
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. View quote
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I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies. View quote
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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 sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. View quote
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Religion is a mixed blessing. View quote
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I experience God as the power of love. View quote
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I am a child of the 21st century. View quote
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My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway. View quote
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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. View quote
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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 Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. View quote
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I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. (John Shelby Spong)
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability. View quote
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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. View quote
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If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system. View quote
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I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf. View quote
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