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"All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake."

John Shelby Spong on Truth

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  • "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

    Marcus Aurelius on Truth

  • "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

    Albert Einstein on Truth

  • "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

    Buddha on Truth

  • "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

  • "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

    Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by John Shelby Spong

  • "You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'"

  • "I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."

  • "All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake."

  • "Religion is a mixed blessing."

  • "It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different."

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