Rowan Williams Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Rowan Williams Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step. Rowan Williams | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. Rowan Williams | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. Rowan Williams | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. Rowan Williams | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    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 | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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