John Shelby Spong Quotes
I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
Quotes to Explore
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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I didn't want to just be remembered for 'War Horse.'
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.
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I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
