Peter Akinola: Quotes about people

Peter Akinola is Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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

Interview in The New York Times, 25 December 2006

“Whoever God is calling to govern must put God first, must know the people, must know what their aspirations are, must know what their needs are and address those needs. In that way they will be blessed, they will rejoice and God too will be honoured.”

Interview in the Guardian newspaper, 24 January 2007

“To opine that, unknown to humans, God had hitherto created some people to be homosexuals and lesbians (i. e., sexual orientations) is tantamount to creating God in our own image and introducing a cancerous element into the fabric of the African understanding of marriage and family.”

“This Conference:… (3) recognises that there are among us persons who experience themselves as having a homosexual orientation. Many of these are members of the Church and are seeking the pastoral care, moral direction of the Church, and God's transforming power for the living of their lives and the ordering of relationships. We commit ourselves to listen to the experience of homosexual persons and we wish to assure them that they are loved by God and that all baptised, believing and faithful persons, regardless of sexual orientation, are full members of the Body of Christ; (4) while rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture, calls on all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals”

Resolution 1.10 on Human Sexuality, Lambeth Conference 1988.
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“The victimisation or diminishment of human beings whose affections happen to be ordered towards people of the same sex is anathema to us.”

Statement of the Primates of the Anglican Communion at Dromantine, February 2005
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