Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. — 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
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel. One said to the other, “Let’s have a quarrel with each other, as other… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“Christians will be found in the neighbourhood of Jesus – but Jesus is found in the neighbourhood of human confusion and suffering, defencelessly alongside… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
