"The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end."

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John Shelby Spong

#Swimming Quotes #Church Quotes #Noise Quotes

“My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”

Source : Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987
“It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position”
“Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.”
“Christians can not truly evangelize unless they are prepared to be evangelized in the process. In sharing the good news, people are enriched by the spiritual insights, honest questions and depth of devotion demonstrated by those of other faiths. Including others involves listening to them, learning from them. Much of what exists in other faiths may not necessarily be hostile to the kingdom. Christians can learn a lot from other walks of life.”
“What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.”
“All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary”
“It helps to read the sentence aloud.”
“Adams first law of survival: Get even first.”

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