"The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Gay Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.”
“I will never belong to anyoneâ€”I will die before I allow that to happen.”
“We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.”
“All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.”
“I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“Families are the treasure of heaven.”
“Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.”
“My actress friends would tell me their horror stories, or say they couldn't get work, and were deemed too old, even though they were established and talented and fit and gorgeous. It was frustrating for them and it was frustrating to hear. Maybe because I was the same age as them and it was already hard enough trying to cross over to the 40s without someone judging your every move.”

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