Gene Robinson famous quotes

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.
-- Gene Robinson

#Jesus #Want #Sometimes

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 fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
-- Gene Robinson

#Our World #Understanding #Body

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 reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.
-- Gene Robinson

#Spiritual #Believe #Heart

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

#Reflection #Thinking #Honest

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.
-- Gene Robinson

#Moving #Views #Government

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

#Confused #Home #Bees

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

#People #Principles #Speak

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
-- Gene Robinson

#Movement #Abiding #Doe

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

#Passion #Hard Times #Devices

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 thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
-- Gene Robinson

#Christian #Believe #Joy

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 lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,
-- Gene Robinson

#Couple #Gay #Rights

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

#Long #Roles #Intrigued

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.
-- Gene Robinson

#Gay #Church #Bishops

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 to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
-- Gene Robinson

#Gay #Thinking #Church

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

#Moving #Church #Institutions

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

#Yesterday #Church #Today

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story
-- Gene Robinson

#Stories

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

#Thinking #People #Giving

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
-- Gene Robinson

#Stability #Interest