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1. "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 shouters and the disinterested. Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me neither option is worth pursuing. Yet even understanding these things, I am still attracted to this Jesus and I will pursue him both relentlessly and passionately. I will not surrender the truth I believe I find in him either to those who seek to defend the indefensible or to those who want to be freed finally from premodern ideas that no longer make any sense." ~ John Shelby Spong
2. "What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore." ~ John Shelby Spong
3. "All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake." ~ John Shelby Spong
4. "You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability." ~ John Shelby Spong
5. "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
6. "Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good." ~ John Shelby Spong
7. "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
8. "Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state." ~ John Shelby Spong
9. "God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny." ~ John Shelby Spong
10. "I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies." ~ John Shelby Spong
11. "I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people." ~ John Shelby Spong
12. "Mother Nature is not sweet." ~ John Shelby Spong
13. "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." ~ John Shelby Spong
14. "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
15. "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
16. "Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence." ~ John Shelby Spong
17. "Religion is a mixed blessing." ~ John Shelby Spong
18. "The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person." ~ John Shelby Spong
19. "My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway." ~ John Shelby Spong
20. "I can only give away the love that I have received." ~ John Shelby Spong
21. "I experience God as the power of love." ~ John Shelby Spong
22. "It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish." ~ John Shelby Spong
23. "...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness." ~ John Shelby Spong
24. "I prepare for death by living." ~ John Shelby Spong
25. "When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a radical insight, and one the consciousness of the mystic is destined to understand." ~ John Shelby Spong

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