John Shelby Spong Quotes
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
John Shelby Spong
Quotes to Explore
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
Carl Bernstein
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
Mae Jemison
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
Becky Lynch
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
Edmund White
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Northrop Frye
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Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
Burning Spear
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Music without words means
Kabir
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
John Shelby Spong
