Rowan Williams Quotes

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Rowan Williams

Profession : Theologian

Birth : June 14, 1950

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

Rowan Williams

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