John Shelby Spong
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Your capacity to experience the fullness of life is directly proportionate to your capacity to exper... 
Our past is what molds us into the person we are today. It does not define us. 
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... 
The ability to experience bliss requires the gift of attentive awareness, curiosity, and constant le... 
God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffe... 
The richest people are those who have an abundance of what we take with us into the next life. 
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God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of ho... 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
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Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. 
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