Religious Roles Quotes

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.

There are a lot of Arabs that are not Muslims. They are Christians; they are Jews. Muslim Arabs, especially in my family, are just so ecstatic that I get to play Jesus. They're so proud.

[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

There just aren't that many Jesus roles around.

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.