Quotes by Rowan Williams

“[Knowing God]... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither... [its] the decision to be faithful, the...”

“I long for the Church to be more truly itself, and for me this involves changing its stance on war, sex, investment and many other difficult matters. I believe in all conscience that my questions a...”

“I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology of the risen body; and I have never managed to see how to put together such a theolo...”

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

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

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

“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 abo...”

“The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacr...”

“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 think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.”

“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 ch...”

“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...”

“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. ”

“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 have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control.”