John Shelby Spong Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Christian, Buddhist

  "Walking into the Mystery of God" by John Shelby Spong, www.uua.org.

• I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Thinking, People

• I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

  John Shelby Spong

  God, Truth, People

• I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

  John Shelby Spong

  Girl, God, Son

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