Rowan Williams Quotes
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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
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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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To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
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Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.
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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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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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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
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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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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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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.