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God Quotes by Rowan Williams
- 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…
- 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.…
- It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a…
- In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
- And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting…
- 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, less…
- We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.
- The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
- The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it…
- Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes…
- In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to…
- The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God,…
- As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people -…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi