Quotes from Rowan Williams
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
- Rowan Williams
Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
- Rowan 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 Williams
We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.
- Rowan Williams
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.
- Rowan Williams
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
- Rowan Williams
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
- Rowan Williams
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
- Rowan Williams
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
- Rowan 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 Williams
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
- Rowan Williams
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
- Rowan Williams