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Rowan Williams


English
June 14, 1950
Theologian
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A public is a necessary fiction.


Rowan Williams
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.


Rowan Williams
Tags: Life Our Go
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Rowan Williams
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan Williams
Tags: God Love Which
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
Tags: You People Will
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Rowan Williams
Tags: Time Fear Anger
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
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
Rowan Williams