Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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. Rowan Williams Read Quote
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. Rowan Williams Read Quote
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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. Rowan Williams Read Quote
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 chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Rowan Williams Read Quote
