Let’s cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don’t think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I’ve made mistakes – that’s probably one of them. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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. Rowan Williams Read Quote
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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 Williams Read Quote
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 Sacrament. Rowan Williams Read Quote
The world’s creation has a beginning from the world’s point of view, not from God’s. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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 Williams Read Quote
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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 Williams Read Quote
