"...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Gay Quotes #People Quotes #Catholic Quotes

“It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.”
“I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.”
“Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.”
“Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.”
“And I quote, Michael Cole is still a massive tool!”
“For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ï¬nds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinterâ€™s position, ready to run.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.94, Penguin
“Sometimes we can't help the way we feel, but we can mostly choose how we respond to it.”
“Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.”

You may also like:

Bart D. Ehrman
Professor
Don Cupitt
Writer
Elaine Pagels
Professor
John Dominic Crossan
John Robinson
Author
Karen Armstrong
Author
Lloyd Geering
Professor
Marcus Borg
Scholar
Paul Tillich
Philosopher