Rowan Williams Quotes
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It's a moral question.
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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
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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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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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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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I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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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 Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
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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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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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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
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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.