Quotes from Rowan Williams

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

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.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

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.

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

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.

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.

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.