When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.
John Shelby SpongIf you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.
John Shelby Spong...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
John Shelby SpongI think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.
John Shelby Spong