John Shelby Spong Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.”

“The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.”

“I am a child of the 21st century.”

“I believe that God is very real.”

“I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.”

“It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.”

“When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.”

“I go into the Hebrew Scriptures frequently, looking for different ways in which minority voices have expressed the reality of God, and I find them. God is the wind in the Hebrew tradition, the life-giving, animating wind that gets identified with spirit. God is the rock upon which you stand, and you cannot fall when you're standing upon the rock.”

“The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.”

“Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.”