"Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and……" — Rowan Williams
"Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'."
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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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