Rowan Williams Quotes
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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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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
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I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
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It's a moral question.
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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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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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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
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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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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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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
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A public is a necessary fiction.
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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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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.