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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. "

" 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. "

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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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" The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. "

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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. "