Rowan Williams Quotes

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• In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
• Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if…
• We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions,…
• It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they show that they…
• What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented…
• Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living…
• I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer…
• Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
• The past is what the present is doing now.
• Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a…
• 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 me…
• Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being.…
• The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
• The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid…
• Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending…
• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the…
• How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to…
• The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it…
• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust…

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