Confronting Quote by George Carey

“We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.”

George Carey

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God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

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Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

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I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and…

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What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in…

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The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

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A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing…

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I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

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At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian…

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People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

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We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien…

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While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the…

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There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit…

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A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

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I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating the American middle class while inadvertently creating a bourgeoisie in India, China, etc. I do agree that Soros's role is paradoxical, but if all billionaires (or even a few more) were like Soros, the dialectic would…

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