"At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody……" — 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 they did. Change does happen."
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61 Quotes by Rowan Williams
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate…
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We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy…
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It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is…
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What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has…
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Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible…
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I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done…
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Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
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The past is what the present is doing now.
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has,…
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I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy,…
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Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God:…
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More Ages Quotes
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
— Margaret Atwood
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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