John Shelby Spong Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

• ...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Dimensions, Timelessness

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell”, p.20, Harper Collins

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

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Perspective, Way

• The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit. We sense that our only hope is to journey past those definitions of a God who is external, supernatural, and invasive, which previously defined our belief. We must discover whether or not the death of the God we worshiped yesterday is the same thing as the death of God.

  John Shelby Spong

  Past, Journey, Yesterday

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