Susan Russell Quotations

What we really need to do is hang together, as we have in this convention through this difficult time, and find a way through this.

The people leading the split claim they are representing people in the pews, but these are the same people who in 1954 would split the church over our support of Brown v. Board of Education and who would have split the church in 1976 over the issue of women's ordination. The issue now is gays and lesbians -- it's all part of the same struggle.

If the school at the time had done its job correctly and had followed the federal guidelines set up to protect students from campus crime, ... might have been able to enjoy her time as a young coed without the suit looming over her head.

He was very creative and he always loved music. We have video tapes of him performing artists such as Michael Jackson. He would sing his heart out and be dancing up a storm.

When we started this, we were true amateurs.

Yes, there's a lot of fear, but I happen to believe the love of God can overcome that,

What needs to happen is people of all backgrounds need to unite and focus instead on helping bring supplies to the people in need, ... Hurricane Katrina did not discriminate in its path of destruction, and neither does God's love.

There's never a dull moment in the Episcopal Church these days.

The scripture that comes to my mind is 'Jesus wept,' ... Jesus weeps today for the loss of life in New Orleans and he weeps that his gospel is being hijacked by the rabid rhetoric of the religious right -- that is in its own way as destructive to our national fabric as Hurricane Katrina has been.

The band really adds something to our lives.