John Shelby Spong Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

  John Shelby Spong

  Mean, People, Risk

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.

  John Shelby Spong

  Biblical, Two Sides, Justice

• Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.

  John Shelby Spong

  Hands, Giving, Justice

• "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.

  John Shelby Spong

  Wife, Males, Today

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Neighbor, Driven, Radical

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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