Rowan Williams Quotes
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Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
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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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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.
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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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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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A public is a necessary fiction.
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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
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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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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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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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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
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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.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.