"God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God."

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Source : "Walking into the Mystery of God" by John Shelby Spong, www.uua.org.

John Shelby Spong

#Christian Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.”
“Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.”
“Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.”
“Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.”

Source : "Ars interviews Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon". Interview with John Timmer, arstechnica.com. July 30, 2015.
“Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.”
“I needed to save every pennyâ€¦I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. Thatâ€™s why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.”
“It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?”
“The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to learn the grammar of it, and that's why I tried to write the sheet music down. Writing it down gave me some ideas of other versions of the music and I wrote the first string quartets and piano pieces based on transcriptions.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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