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> [“By affirming that all 'meaning,' every assertion about the significance of life and reality, must be judged by reference to a brief succession of contingent events in Palestine, Christianity - almost without realizing it - closed off the path to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/by-affirming-that-all-meaning-every-assertion-about-the-significance/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

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## More by Rowan Williams

> [A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/a-flourishing-morally-credible-media-is-a-vital-component-in-the/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/religion-has-always-been-a-matter-of-community-building-a-matter-of/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [“By affirming that all 'meaning,' every assertion about the significance of life and reality, must be judged by reference to a brief succession of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/by-affirming-that-all-meaning-every-assertion-about-the-significance/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/i-have-by-god-s-grace-learned-as-a-member-of-the-christian-community/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/we-can-at-least-see-that-the-question-is-asked-and-asked-on-the-basis/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/in-sharp-contrast-to-the-idea-that-this-stage-of-life-is-enviable-we/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/loneliness-has-little-to-do-with-what-we-do-or-where-we-do-it-whether/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/at-the-end-of-the-middle-ages-nobody-would-ever-have-expected-the/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/we-discover-too-late-that-we-have-turned-a-blind-eye-to-the/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/serving-democracy-and-nourishing-the-common-good-is-for-the-media/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/i-do-feel-that-federation-loose-parallel-processes-are-less-than-we/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/quite-a-lot-of-our-contemporary-culture-is-actually-shot-through-with/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/whether-something-is-old-fashioned-or-not-doesn-t-resolve-the/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/two-hermits-lived-together-for-many-years-without-a-quarrel-one-said/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

> [“Christians will be found in the neighbourhood of Jesus – but Jesus is found in the neighbourhood of human confusion and suffering, defencelessly alongside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/christians-will-be-found-in-the-neighbourhood-of-jesus-but-jesus-is/)

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