Gene Robinson

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world. ”