"Left to our own devices and passions, we……" — Gene Robinson
"Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us."
—
Gene Robinson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
21 Quotes by Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson has 21 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
-
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…
-
It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the…
-
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who…
-
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the…
-
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…
-
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our…
-
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is…
-
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your…
See all 21 quotes by Gene Robinson »
More Beings Quotes
This quote is filed under Beings Quotes,
one of 3,882 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
-
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
— Karen Armstrong
-
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
-
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
-
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
— David Attenborough
-
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
— David Attenborough
-
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
-
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
-
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
— Douglas Adams
See all 3,882 Beings Quotes »