Rowan Williams Quotes
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
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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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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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Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
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Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.
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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
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I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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The past is what the present is doing now.
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Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.