#go

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#any #build #create #different #different way

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#begins #dignity #give #god #i

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#books #conceive #down #galileo #god

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#claiming #god #got #how #human

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#easy #enough #god #i #just

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#association #audience #big #big enough #call

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#because #christ #go #i #leads

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#enhances #evil #good #life #whatever

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#authorized #been #case #certain #constitution