John Shelby Spong Quotes

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.

I'm sure I've lost a few jobs because I'm a Christian. That's irrelevant. I can honestly say that of everything I have, of everything I've experienced, nothing compares to the joy of knowing Christ. Because I've been given a glimpse of Heaven and it outshines all of the rest.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.