John Shelby Spong Quotes

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I am a Christian.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.