"The twentieth century may tell us that we……" — Rowan Williams
"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny."
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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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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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