"There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this……" — Gene Robinson
"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 they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected."
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21 Quotes by Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson has 21 quotes on this site.
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Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
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It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that…
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I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life,
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I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your…
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It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the…
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I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the…
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I'll be at Lambeth telling my story
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One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down…
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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our…
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I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is…
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Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your…
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Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.
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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
— Glenn Beck
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea],…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't…
— Josemaria Escriva
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Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of…
— Pope John Paul II
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The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed
— Emanuel Lasker
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