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 1 Share Now -
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. - Rowan Williams 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 Williams 4 Share Now -
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. - Rowan Williams 5 Share Now -
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. - Rowan Williams 6 Share Now -
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith. - Rowan Williams 7 Share Now -
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. - Rowan Williams 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
