John Shelby Spong Quotes

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

John Shelby Spong

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LifeBelieveGuiltHumanityNewSin

It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

Jimmy Cliff

LiveTimeMeSeeingBackGhetto

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

ProblemsCareTake CareYouCreate

I don't think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends.

Robert Lopez

TimeSchoolCollegeThinkChurch

I had examples from a very young age of gay actors or personalities coming out in late '90s and early 2000s who faced a lot of backlash and didn't have a lot of support and risked ruining their careers.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

AgeSupportEarlyLateGayYoung

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

BusinessResponsibilitySocial Media

Nothing that I say in my music is a lie.

Shy Glizzy

MusicLieSayNothing

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Rosanna Arquette

ArtJobPeopleMeHurtCriticism

As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!

Ron Cephas Jones

CharacterDeathAliveSayRunNever

I'm very attached to Real, more so than Barcelona.

Ronaldo

MoreRealBarcelonaThanAttached

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

Marty Meehan

ThinkAmericanOkayAttackPercent

When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical.

Jonny Greenwood

ThoughtBetterKindLondonMore

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.

Donovan

TimeGuitarReachedVirtuosoStyles

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