John Shelby Spong Quotes

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Pray in faith.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

I believe in my prayers.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.