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Rowan D. Williams quotes

American Clergyman June 14, 1950

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The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. Rowan D. Williams
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. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be..."
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. Rowan D. Williams
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. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. Rowan D. Williams
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "The Church exists to connect people at the level of their..."
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for..."
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. Rowan D. Williams
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. Rowan D. Williams
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts,..."
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. Rowan D. Williams
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm."
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for..."
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams quote: "A public is a necessary fiction."
A public is a necessary fiction. Rowan D. Williams

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