Rowan D. Williams Quotes

• Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

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• To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

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• To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

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• The world’s creation has a beginning from the world’s point of view, not from God’s.

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• The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.

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• The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can’t leave, you are in effect a captive.

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• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

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• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

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• One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

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• Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

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• Keeping our eyes on journey’s end is what we need – the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

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• It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity.

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• Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

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• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

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• Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor – but the Church is not a campaign.

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• Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

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• Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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• As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God’s people – historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant – is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

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• And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

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Rowan D. Williams (30)

Birth:	14th June, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bishop, Theologian

About

Rowan Douglas Williams is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.

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Births

• 1953 - Lucinda Williams
• 1943 - Susan Griffin
• 1944 - Angela Davis
• 1958 - Xavier Becerra
• 1961 - Wayne Gretzky

Deaths

• 1983 - Paul Bryant
• 1824 - Theodore Gericault
• 1990 - Lewis Mumford
• 1988 - Raymond Williams
• 1949 - Peter Marshall