John Shelby Spong
Related Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER RAJNEESH JOEL OSTEEN What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. The... CHARLES ALLEN CHARLES L. ALLEN Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the worl... HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT FRANCIS CHAN I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits. STEPHAN JENKINS ANNE LAMOTT I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON I have never met a man who refuses to be blessed by God. I have met many people who are not in capac... RIAAN VAN WYK KURT VONNEGUT JR. CLIVE BARKER JA RULE It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ... DANIEL EVERETT I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give the... GENE ROBINSON JEFFREY FRY What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU DAVE EGGERS JOHN BUNYAN We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given th... DUANE CHAPMAN We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with t... AJIBIKE AKINKOYE A nicotine patch may not be enough. We have a group of smokers who are often interested in stopping,... DR. LORI BASTIAN SUNDAY ADELAJA TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE CHRISTOPHER PIKE BRENNAN MANNING BRIAN ENO We wanted something so people who are interested in the program can stay in touch. I think it's goin... CHRIS JOHNS SWAMI DHYAN GITEN KURT VONNEGUT Most people are intrigued by people who depend totally on God for survival. They don't have a job an... JANET KELLERMAN The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. INDONESIA123 FULTON J. SHEEN DARREN ARONOFSKY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Believing that in a wise way it is good to go to church, and that associating with Christians would ... GERONIMO It's about people who are ready to take God out of the box. These people stand up for their faith re... DARNELL JENKINS EMILE DURKHEIM C. JOYBELL C. PHILIP YANCEY Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work toget... REGGIE JOINER The Church has a vision of wholeness and holiness for the human person, and everything the Church do... MATTHEW KELLY I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great... SHAUN CASSIDY MAYA ANGELOU [Continued from yesterday] 4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous ... CHARLES G. FINNEY KEITH RICHARDS Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Bu... MILFORD C. OLSON OSWALD CHAMBERS They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a... MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY JOHN DONNE RICHIE NORTON A. W. TOZER CHARLES BUKOWSKI CHARLES BUKOWSKI JEFFERSON BETHKE AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many b... STEPHEN LEVINE FREDERICK BUECHNER MAYA ANGELOU BRIAN CLOUGH God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to t... BARRY LYNN We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves... JACOB REITAN BRENNAN MANNING CRAIG GROESCHEL POPE FRANCIS WILLIAM BARCLAY John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless... GLENN STANTON Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they w... LYN YUTANG JOHN CALVIN GERMANY KENT Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have ... BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... MAHATHIR "CHE DET" MOHAMAD HELEN KELLER BENJAMIN R. SMITH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH KEVIN DEYOUNG Just in a nanosecond, you'd know, a ream of material has been deposited into your heart. ... We call... WAYNE CORDEIRO OSCAR WILDE Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unr... BIBLE CRAIG GROESCHEL JOHN COTTON Religion is not something that you or I can touch. Religion is the worship of God—therefore a matt... MATTHEW KELLY BLAISE PASCAL He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. I John BIBLE These Good Neighbor Award winners are an inspiration, not only to the 1 million plus members of the ... AL MANSELL I always had an admiration for people who stand up for what they believe in, even if it's against al... JULIAN RAINWATER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU CARLOS WALLACE BILLY GRAHAM I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling... GEORGE A. MOORE LANA DEL REY PETER DAVISON I think that regardless of whether or not there's a downturn, people want their children to have wha... AL KAHN I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf... LARRY NORMAN Are you gay, Cherie? DARWUN ST. JAMES
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(recounting what he told a play... SHELBY METCALF The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whol... RICHARD SHELBY And when life throws its worst at you, throw your best at life SHELBY DAWSON We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow thr... RICHARD SHELBY SHELBY FOOTE A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by inte... RICHARD SHELBY If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still t... RICHARD SHELBY I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can ... RICHARD SHELBY SHELBY FOOTE I subscribe entirely and wholeheartedly to that dual mandate, ... I do not subscribe to any rigid or... RICHARD SHELBY Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his
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...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s... 
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any... 
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me... 
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. The... 
We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I... 
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w... 
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead.
I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia... 
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I cal... 
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. 
I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha... 
Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess o... 
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Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ... 
...the institutional church, which exists to serve the people of God, is never to be confused with t... 
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The biggest truth to face now – what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my lif... 
He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ... 
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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacr... 
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Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. 
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I c... 
I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools the... 
The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... 
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Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... 
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commo... 
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not fou... 
People who are distracted by door money, neglect the production and the audience. Money becomes thei... 
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kin... 
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demo... 
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adh... 
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Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. 
Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous! 
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I'm a terrible husband. 
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.