Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes

The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.

Rowan Williams

• Desire
• Body
• Christ
• Creation
• Response
• Caught
• Unconditional
• Incarnation

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Desire
  • Pressure

• The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Body

• I came to Christ in my early 20s.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Christ
  • Early
  • Early 20s

• Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Important
  • Love
  • Parents

• The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Desire
  • Evil

• And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Family
  • Job
  • Desire

• Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Attention
  • Desire

• My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Team
  • Desire
  • Space

• If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • World
  • Different
  • Society

• living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

  

  Sandra Tsing Loh
  • People
  • Extras

• You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • People

• I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Essence
  • Active
  • Points

• So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Mother
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Desire
  • Body
  • Christ