Knowing Quite Quotes by Timothy Radcliffe

“Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of magic mushrooms…

— Timothy Radcliffe

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not…

— Timothy Radcliffe

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to…

— Timothy Radcliffe

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

— Timothy Radcliffe

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual…

— Timothy Radcliffe

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

— Timothy Radcliffe

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

— Timothy Radcliffe

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

— Timothy Radcliffe

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

— Timothy Radcliffe

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

— Timothy Radcliffe