54 Quotes by Gene Robinson

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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