John Shelby Spong Quotes

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.

John Shelby Spong

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• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Eye
  • Smile
  • Her

• In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Future

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • American
  • Future

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Church
  • Bible

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • School
  • Kids
  • American

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.

  

  John Ortberg
  • People
  • Book
  • Help

• In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Crisis
  • Levels

• I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

  

  Billy Ray Cyrus
  • Up
  • God
  • Beautiful

• I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • House
  • Faith

• I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Music
  • Age
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • God
  • Believe
  • Trying