John Shelby Spong Quotes

I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he was a human being who achieved such promise of humanity that he entered into what I think God is: mainly, the power of life, the power of love and what Paul Tillich, a German theologian of the mid-twentieth century, called "the ground of all being."

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Where love is, there God is also.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

I experience God as the power of love.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

God is love, love is bhakti and bhakti our connection to God.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved

Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

love is the every only god

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

God is a name we give to love.

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.