Rowan Williams Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“A public is a necessary fiction.”

“Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.”

“In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.”

“To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.”

“The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.”

“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.”

“At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.”

“In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.”

“Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.”