John Shelby Spong Quotes

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

They say miracles are past.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

Do you believe in miracles?

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.