"We are the best vehicle for salvation that God
has planned for this earth! Let us now take
these winds and somehow funnel them, and in
funneling, help cause them to blow away all of
the dirt and all of the things that would
destroy us. And help us to grow and become what
God would have us be."
– Bishop Philip R. Cousin
Bishop Cousin (center) at the 47th quadrennial
meeting of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2004
