John Shelby Spong Quotes

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

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• At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Times

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• 'Coexist' was tough to make.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Make
  • Tough
  • Coexist

• I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Write
  • Will
  • Monster

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Custom is second nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Second
  • Custom

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Want
  • Rules

• When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Day
  • End

• We're not looking at banning all weapons.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Looking
  • Weapons
  • Banning

• You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Christian

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• Habit is a great deadener.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Habit

• It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Free
  • Down

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Democracy
  • Same
  • Down

• Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Adventure
  • Betrayal

• With TV, came the icon, the inclusive image, the inclusive political posture or stance. (p. 191)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Political

• All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Graves
  • Uncertain
  • Cradle

• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Space
  • Place

• We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Time
  • Great
  • Doubt

• In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

  

  John Shelby Spong