What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

Jesus was a management expert too.

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey—one that will last forever.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.

I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.