Self-obsession is not self-realization but self-destruction.

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We often speak of Anglican "comprehensiveness." If this is a way of making relativism palatable or a means of accommodating all shades of opinion…

— Urban Tigner Holmes

“Resurrection means bodily resurrection or it means nothing at all.”

— Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

As a practising Anglican I go to church on a Sunday.

— Dominic Grieve

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady…

— Michel Faber

I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the…

— Monty Don

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

— Niall Ferguson

“It is possible to find within the limits of a stone’s throw one Anglican divine who preaches practically the entire cycle of Catholic doctrine…

— Robert Hugh Benson

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village…

— Richard Dawkins

“The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.”

— Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an…

— Tom Harpur

“as the Anglican E. L. Mascall put it, God is not “just one item, albeit the supreme one, in a class of beings” but…

— David Bentley Hart

“One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...”

— Henry James

Our children are very much remaining Anglican, and I very much wish to remain and shall remain a Catholic.

— Princess Michael of Kent

As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I…

— Martin Rees