Gene Robinson Quotes

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• Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
• It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and…
• I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life,
• I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life,
• It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the…
• There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and…
• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like…
• I'll be at Lambeth telling my story
• One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst…
• Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be…
• I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
• Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose…
• Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.
• Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
• When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of…
• I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
• You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.
• Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
• If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not…
• It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

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