Rowan Williams Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.”

“To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.”

“To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.”

“And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.”

“The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.”

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

“So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.”

“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.”

“One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.”

“Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.”