Rowan Williams Quotes

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

Time, Fear, Anger

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

Time, Human, Try

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.
Rowan Williams

God, Done, Jesus

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

Truth, Learn, Value

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Rowan Williams

True, Thinking, Question

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.
Rowan Williams

Change, End, Happen

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

True, Working, Used

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.
Rowan Williams

Important, Step, Decided

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

God, Long, Less

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
Rowan Williams

Faith, Great, Christian

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
Rowan Williams

Trust, Find, Sense

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

Trust, Important, Real

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
Rowan Williams

Mistakes, Words, Made

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
Rowan Williams

Rich, Between, Autumn

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Rowan Williams

Judge, Person, Violence

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

God, Jesus, Show

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

Life, Find, Shall

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
Rowan Williams

Culture, Obsession, Marketing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Theologian

Born: June 14, 1950

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