“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
Source: Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell
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“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 24
"Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions," weekly mailing, 2007-SEP-05, as reported on Religious Tolerance.org http://www.religioustolerance.org/reltrue.htm
“Jesus could not have imagined such an idea as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.”
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 25
Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994), p. 238
Matt. 25:30
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 21
“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth.”
Interview http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/christianity/2005/05/i-am-a-mystic.aspx?p=2 with Deborah Caldwell for Beliefnet.com (May 2005)
Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994), p. 99
This Hebrew Lord (1974), p. 13
Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994), p. 37
"Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-shelby-spong/why-i-wrote-re-claiming-t_b_1007399.html, The Huffington Post (13 October 2011)
“The question must also be raised as to whether we have the actual words of Jesus in any Gospel.”
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 78