Rowan Williams Quotes (33 Quotes)

I think the Christian gospel is bound to be putting questions as to how we organise our society, how we make our political decisions.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it is that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture, to draw the strongest energies of our thinking and feeling.

I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.

We have to learn to be human along-side all sorts of others, the ones whose company we don't greatly like.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.

I am clear that the anxieties caused by recent developments have reached the point where we will need to sit down and discuss their consequences,

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

These people are not being left to be victims. They are being helped, trained and given back their dignity and freedom,

I hope that in our deliberations we will find that there are ways forward in this situation which can preserve our respect for one another and for the bonds that unite us.

is someone who has always combined a passion for sharing the Gospel with a keen sense of the problems and challenges of our society, particularly where racism is concerned.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

I am concerned that we keep lines of communication open, that we don't hurry to new structures, but that of course we have to ask the question, 'Do we have the structures to serve us properly', and that will take time work out,

We are still on that path, and irrevocably committed to it.

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'.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

I believe there is a god with all the trust and the hope and the love that there is in me. I don't know that there is a god in the sense that I know you're sitting opposite me.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

I hope we can use the time between now and then to reflect, to pray, to consult and to take counsel,

increased crime and disorder, public nuisance and decreased public safety at a place which is dear to people from various Christian traditions.

It seems to me rather sad, and rather revealing, that when it comes to sex we suddenly become much less intelligent about our reading of the Bible,

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please,

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that itabortion was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.

It really doesn't matter who you are, what you have done or not done, what you think and believe, you are still a target just by being where you are at a particular time,

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

a huge fallacy to suppose that one community is somehow more intrinsically prone to violence or outrage than any other.