Quotes by : John Shelby Spong

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because....

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

Whatever it was that people experience in Jesus has today come to be identified with medieval doctrines....

Mother Nature is not sweet.

This is the picture of a woman cast in the role of a learner, a pupil, even a rabbinic student. Quite....

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name.....

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in....

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or....

As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.