Quotes of John Spong

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The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

- John Spong

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“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ We werent exactly lovers yet, But we were a little more then friends. We just kept meeting at the wrong time, but our connection never ends. ”

- Nikki Rowe

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ I love my attitude problem. ”

- Unknown

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Being love rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley