Peter Akinola Quotations

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

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

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.

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

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

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.

Let there be no illusions, ... The communion is broken and fragmented. The communion will break.

I don't think we've come to the point of schism, ... We are not breaking away from anybody.

so that those who are bent to walk a different path may do so without us.

Instead of a clear call for repentance we have been offered warms words of sentimentality for those who have shown no godly sorrow for their actions.

If England adopts a new faith, alien to what has been handed to us together, they will walk apart. Simple as that,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?