George Carey Quotes

• God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

  George Carey

  Topics in God

  Tags in Kingdom

• One I’ve been passionately committed to, of course, is women’s ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we’ve found our way through that.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Ministry

• If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, Relationship

• From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

  George Carey

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Vulnerability, Transitory

• And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion – of becoming a global communion. So that’s why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communion, Sense, Global

• And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that’s going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

  George Carey

  Topics in America

  Tags in Powerful

• An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog’s body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in London, Office, Boy

• What I’d say about that is that we must respect homos*xuals in the church. I’ve got many homos*xual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

  George Carey

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Friends

• And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

  George Carey

  Topics in Encouragement

  Tags in Council, Ourselves

• I’m on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Christian, Denominational

• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Israelis, Deal, Palestinians

• But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein’s willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Willingness

• I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faiths, Dialogue

• I think in my own country, at the way we’ve seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I’m delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

  George Carey

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Self, Thinking

• I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Pleasure, Sudan

• I see no room in holy Scripture for any s*xual activity outside of matrimony.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Holy, Scripture, Matrimony

• I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God’s in charge of his world.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Thinking, Calvinism

• I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Church, Jesus Christ

• People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

  George Carey

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Bishop, Critics

• We’ve got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide – and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

  George Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religions, Cultural, Issues

George Carey (26)

Birth:	13th November, 1935
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bishop, Educator, Theologian

About

George Carey was born in London, UK. He is a British retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. He graduated in 1962 with a 2:1 Bachelor of Divinity degree and was subsequently ordained. He later obtained a Master of Theology degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Durham. In 1982, he was appointed Principal of Trinity College, Bristol. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire and the London School of Theology. He has written several books include: The church in the market place, God incarnate, Know the Truth: A Memoir, I Believe in Man, Why I believe in a personal God, The gate of glory, and The Great God Robbery.

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