Culture Quote by Rowan Williams

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare…

— Rowan Williams

“By affirming that all 'meaning,' every assertion about the significance of life and reality, must be judged by reference to a brief succession of…

— Rowan Williams

I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave…

— Rowan Williams

We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way…

— Rowan Williams

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about…

— Rowan Williams

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or…

— 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…

— Rowan Williams

We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of…

— Rowan Williams

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also…

— Rowan Williams

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run,…

— Rowan Williams

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…

— Rowan Williams