Rowan D. Williams Quotes

• Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Public, Human

• A public is a necessary fiction.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fiction, Public, Necessary

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice

• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Equality, Interdependence

• To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one’s own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Interdependence, Action, Poverty, Freedom

• In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do — not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Belief, Kindness, Religion

  Tags in Globalism, Understanding

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

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Communication

• The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Religion

• Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poverty, Wealth

• In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture

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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