John Shelby Spong Quotes

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

John Shelby Spong

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• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
  • Violence

• It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Done
  • Learn

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
  • Others
  • Crop
  • Heavier

• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Learn
  • Paint

• There's a lot you can do without words.

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Words

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

  

  Larry David
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Woman

• The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Life
  • Imagine
  • Breaking

• The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Religious