“I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings cl...” — John Shelby Spong Quote

“I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.”

“I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.”

“Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.”

“If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.”

“I haven't done much traveling in my life at all - if you're seeing these places for the first time, so am I. So I decided not to pretend. I'm not this know-it-all host walking around claiming to know everything.”

“I like how it presented this contradiction because traditionally gay people have been shut out from the church, so 'Sanctify' was claiming a bit of that back and saying, 'My sexuality is holy.'”