Zitate und Sprüche von John Shelby Spong

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.

I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

Meine Moral ist diese: verbessert diese Handlung das Leben, oder macht sie es schlechter? Baut sie etwas auf oder reißt sie etwas ein?

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.