#me

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

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

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

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

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified... ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#humor #mercy-thompson #humor

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#after #another #any #back #bond

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#class #look #something #still #suit

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#keeping #liberty #men #money #only

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? ↗

— John Spratt

#direction #emerged #era #every #finally