Robert Runcie Quotes

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

All are essentially equal in the eyes of God.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.