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" Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. "

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

" St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. "

" 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. "

" Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. "

" Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. "

" We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. "

" The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. "

" 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. "

" Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. "

" 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. "

" A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's. "

" 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. "

" Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. "

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

" I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step. "

" 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. "

" In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. "