Gene Robinson Quotes

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

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

Life, Jesus, Sometimes

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
Gene Robinson

God, Spiritual, Thought

But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.
Gene Robinson

God, Together, Learn

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.
Gene Robinson

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

Faith, God, Best

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.
Gene Robinson

Good, God, Children

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

Change, Speaking, Slow

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, Lesbian, Election

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

Religion, God, Give

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

Life, Honest, Reflection

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

Someone, Speak, Rule

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

Life, Faith, Religion

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 worry about risking itself for the right thing.
Gene Robinson

Work, God, Best

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

Life, God, Integrity

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

Time, Human, Hard

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

Life, Faith, Death

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

God, Today, Tomorrow

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

Marriage, Society, Why

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

Home, Live, Confused

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

Marriage, Work, Women

The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
Gene Robinson

Someone, Church, Truly

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, Around, Lesbian

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.
Gene Robinson

Love, Time, God

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

Truth, Government, Move

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Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 29, 1947

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