"The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen."

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John Shelby Spong

#Believe Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.”
“Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.”
“Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.”
“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”
“I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.”
“I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.”
“I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.”
“Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.”

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