Gene Robinson Quotes

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

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 government.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard ... I believe it is work we are called to do

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

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 it.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.