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Rowan D. Williams
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Rowan D. Williams
Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
Rowan D. Williams
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
Rowan D. Williams
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
Rowan D. Williams
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
Rowan D. Williams
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.
Rowan D. Williams
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan D. Williams
In human life generally, information, significant and otherwise, is shared in such overlapping networks, and absorbed at different levels over time.
Rowan D. Williams
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Rowan D. Williams
If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.