“Doctrinal formulae are neither a set of neat definitions nor some sort of affront to the free-thinking soul; they are words that… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral.… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“By affirming that all 'meaning,' every assertion about the significance of life and reality, must be judged by reference to a brief succession of… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
![“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications... of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and on the cross, that…” quote by Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b2c/rowan-williams-8580_christ_knowing-god-call-it-love-yes-only-that-c_2271375.jpg)
