Success Quote by Gene Robinson

Risk gets sanctified here, not as macho bravado but as a theological rebuttal to the modern obsession with self-preservation. Gene Robinson, a cleric who knows something about living under threat, isn’t offering a generic pep talk about courage; he’s reframing danger as a moral diagnostic. What do you value enough that you’d accept loss for it? The line has the cadence of plainspoken pastoral counsel, but it carries a sharper edge: if your ethics never cost you anything, they may not be ethics at all.

The pivot is the Jesus citation, a move that does two things at once. It borrows the moral authority of the Gospels while quietly redirecting a familiar verse away from private piety and toward public consequence. “Save your life” reads like the instinct to stay respectable, safe, and uncontroversial; “lose it” becomes a willingness to be diminished - socially, professionally, even physically - for the sake of truth, justice, or fidelity to conscience. The subtext is aimed at a church and a society that often confuse caution with wisdom and neutrality with virtue.

Robinson’s context matters: as an openly gay bishop in a tradition riven by conflict over sexuality, he became a symbol and a target. In that light, “risking your life” isn’t metaphorical flourish; it’s a reminder that discipleship can be costly in real, bodily ways. The quote works because it refuses the sentimental version of faith. It insists that belief isn’t mainly what you affirm; it’s what you’re willing to endure.