"Violence is not to be undertaken by private……" — Rowan Williams
"Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest."
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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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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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