Beauty touches and renews our hope when it takes us out of the grid of ordi­nary time and brings us to another place, a place where his­tory ceases and the weight of mem­ory relents, a place ever ancient and ever new.
— John O’ Donohue

God is the source of life. And if God is the source of life, the only way I can wor­ship God is by liv­ing fully. And I’ve got to ded­i­cate myself as a fol­lower of this God to build­ing a world where every­body has an oppor­tu­nity to live fully.
— John Shelby Spong

I spend my time, not reject­ing the way the Chris­t­ian story has been under­stood, but reject­ing the lit­er­al­ism that has been imposed upon it. My sec­u­lar human­ist friends would reject the whole story.
— John Shelby Spong