Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
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Fannie Flagg
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
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Wendelin Van Draanen
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur! )
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Jostein Gaarder
To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life–if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes...
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More Quotes By John Shelby Spong
As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.
What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
This is the picture of a woman cast in the role of a learner, a pupil, even a rabbinic student. Quite obviously this is a prohibited role for women in those days and in that culture. Yet Jesus affirms Mary in that role. Martha, however,...
Whatever it was that people experience in Jesus has today come to be identified with medieval doctrines based on premodern assumptions that are no longer believable. That identification means that serious theological discussion seems to accomplish little more than to erect a division between the...
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
