John Shelby Spong Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Mother Nature is not sweet.”

“Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.”

“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 first order.”

“My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?”

“Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.”

“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.”

“In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side.”

“Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.”

“I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.”

“I can only give away the love that I have received.”