I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.


Carroll Shelby

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Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it buil...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other peopl...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people a...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the h...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullne...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jes...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I think that we have in recent years entered a 'New Dark Age' in the Western world. It is marked by ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Mother Nature is not sweet.
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundarie...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to p...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I th...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was qu...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humani...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipi...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hi...
JACK CARROLL
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding on...
DIAHANN CARROLL
‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost yo...
LEWIS CARROLL
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times sinc...
LEWIS CARROLL
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL
Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation jus...
PETE CARROLL
Today's announcement will address immediate needs, including the housing situation as winter approac...
AILEEN CARROLL
We encourage, most sincerely, that Canadians donate generously in these last few hours,
AILEEN CARROLL
Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two ap...
AILEEN CARROLL
World Vision and Care Canada are working through their local networks on the ground to meet the need...
AILEEN CARROLL
The CIDA funds that are generated in this manner will be made available to support relief, rehabilit...
AILEEN CARROLL
The first thing to do .. was to make money available on the ground quickly and then to make a part o...
AILEEN CARROLL
Once again, the remarkable entries received show that Canadian youth are moved by the challenges fac...
AILEEN CARROLL
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Br...
CARROLL BAKER