John Shelby Spong Way Quotations

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

There's no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we've experienced God, not what or who God is.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.