George Carey Quotes

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
George Carey

Fire, Prayer, Takes

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
George Carey

Power, Hope, America

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
George Carey

Love, Marriage, Someone

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
George Carey

Great, Here, Growth

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.
George Carey

God, Wants, Role

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
George Carey

Heart, Jesus, Church

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.
George Carey

Great, Mean, Happened

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
George Carey

Holy, Room, Outside

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.
George Carey

God, May, Charge

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
George Carey

Great, Between, Actually

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.
George Carey

Time, Sense, Growing

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
George Carey

Jesus, Management, Critics

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.
George Carey

Heart, Find, Often

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.
George Carey

Trust, Decisions

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
George Carey

Someone, Means, Body

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
George Carey

Why, Around, Sense

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.
George Carey

Light, Action, Military

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
George Carey

Life, Love, Good

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
George Carey

Women, Long, Through

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
George Carey

Christian, Play, Understood

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
George Carey

Faith, Doubt, Lead

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.
George Carey

Women, Through, Found

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
George Carey

Great, Deal, Terrible

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
George Carey

Great, Strong, America

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.
George Carey

Making, Sure, Body

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Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 13, 1935

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