Rowan Williams Quotes & Sayings

“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”

“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”

“A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.”

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

“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.”