Peter Akinola Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

James J. Gibson

#3. We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

Peter Akinola

#4. We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Peter Akinola

#5. Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

Peter Akinola

#6. The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

Peter Akinola

#7. Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

Woody Allen

#9. What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Margaret Fuller

#10. I didn't create poverty. This church didn't create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Peter Akinola

#11. All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.

Peter Akinola

#12. Harry's heart began to pump very fast indeed. Defense against external penetration?

J.K. Rowling

#13. There were tears in his eyes but he blinked them away. "I wish to learn many things".

Anthony Ryan

#14. I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

Vik Muniz

#15. My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

Rafael Nadal

#16. The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.

Peter Akinola

#17. It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Peter Akinola

#18. To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners

Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

#19. We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.

Peter Akinola

#20. I was shocked to my marrow the very first time I heard the Church is saying a man can marry a man. What? It is from that shock, that surprise, how is that possible? Is it a kind of experiment or something? They are sick or tired of normal heterosexual relationships? How could that be?

Peter Akinola

#21. Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

Peter Akinola

#22. We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Peter Akinola

#23. We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

Peter Akinola

#24. Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Peter Akinola

#25. Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Giacomo Casanova