American - Clergyman | June 16, 1931 -
Mother Nature is not sweet.
John Shelby Spong
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
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I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
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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.
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I believe that God is very real.
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It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.
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I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.
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Religion is a mixed blessing.
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The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.
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