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" The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. "

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" I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort. "

Rowan Williams

Perspective

God

Challenge

" 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. "

" What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Rowan Williams

Communication

Bad

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. "

" 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. "

" And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rowan Williams

God

Community

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