Bishop John Shelby Spong Quotes

#1. Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it, as Bishop John Shelby Spong, in The Sins of Scripture, rightly observed.

Richard Dawkins

#2. You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends.

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

Tyler Joseph

#5. She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

Thornton Wilder

#6. Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Henry Taylor

#7. Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.

S.A. Tawks

#8. Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

Richard Whately

#9. Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

Wayne Coyne

#10. It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique
our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language
some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

#12. I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience ... I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

Edmund Morgan

#13. I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.

Margarita Engle

#14. We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

John Shelby Spong

#15. LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Terence McKenna

#16. It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Loretta Lynch

#17. Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Plato