John Shelby Spong Quotes

Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.

John Shelby Spong

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Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Andrew Shue

OpportunitySportsFunWinningDoing

If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.

Max Baucus

PrayerSchoolConstitutionCongress

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

Amor Towles

HistoryTimeManThinkPresent

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

Tom Stoppard

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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Mary Oliver

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I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.

Mike Schultz

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Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

Judi Dench

PeopleStageMissActually

Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.

Jason Robards

LifeAttitudeKnowSoundRealStage

We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.

Jose Aldo

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Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

Diane Lane

RealityTelevisionHideKindSeen

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

Donovan

MotherMusicPowerYouMoreSales

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Christopher Eccleston

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