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All Quotes by author - Timothy Radcliffe

" All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence. "

" At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. "

" Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. "

" Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists. "

" Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance. "

" Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church. "

" Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. "

" I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God. "

" I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. "

" Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ. "

" Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. "

" One of our deepest needs is to be at home. "

" Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. "

" Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. "

" The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. "

" The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. "

" The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. "

" The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. "

" Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. "

" This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful. "

" To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. "

" To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. "

" We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do. "

" We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves. "

" What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. "

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