Rowan D. Williams Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Creative, World, Order

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Present, Community

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in God, Humanity

  Tags in World, Faith, Purpose, Impossible, Community

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Social, Journalism, Good, Communication

• Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Communication

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in God

  Tags in Faithfulness, Marriage

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Social, Greater, Need, Journey

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chance, Return, Important

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Media, Powerful, Public, Interest

• 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

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Effect, Until

• A public is a necessary fiction.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fiction, Public, Necessary

• 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

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Creation, God, Joy, Life

  Tags in Purpose

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Anxiety, Problems

• 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.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Getting, Anxiety, Attention

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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