John Shelby Spong Quotes

If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if it's not as long - as the quality of your life.

I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for.

It will define us as a civilized and ethical society forever in the eyes of history.

For our part we regard all human life as equally sacred, whether it be the life of an Empress or the life of a charwoman, and we have no desire to emulate our contemporaries in their attempt to magnify the horror of a crime because the victim belonged to the former rank of life rather than the latter.

A great man does enough for us when he refrains from doing us harm.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.

Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of life we are on the side of.

Hope, decency, and unity are not mere catchwords.

I think we ought to provide much more dignity and respect to individuals who need some care and assistance, whether they are chronically ill or disabled or seniors, it's the right thing for this country to do.

Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.

Regardless of what I was and who I am, above all, the most important thing is to remain human.