"The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Prayer Quotes #Father Quotes #Maturity Quotes

“I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.”
“I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.”
“I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.”
“I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey”
“Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.”

Source : "Inside Al Jazeera". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 25, 2004.
“I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”

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