John Shelby Spong Quotes

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

John Shelby Spong

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• Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Up
  • Money
  • Possibilities

• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Loved
  • Alcohol
  • Salt

• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Today
  • Energy

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • True
  • Girl

• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• I don't go into a situation trying to knock somebody over. It's just the way I play: physical.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Trying

• I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • People
  • Book
  • Hate

• He will not leave you helpless. He will not leave you by yourself.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Yourself
  • Leave
  • Helpless

• How can we tell our children that - when we have ourselves so often cried out in bitter despair at what we regarded to be the injustice of life - and when we have so often surrendered?

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Life
  • Children
  • Bitter

• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Humanity