Rowan D. Williams

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#equality #existing #finding #friendship #reward

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#generous #god #his #love #loves

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#agree #beliefs #better #bring #context

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#controversial #course #interest #media #most

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 D. Williams

#act #attain #beauty #chaos #convert

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#connect #exists #hunger #level #new

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #god #point #point of view #view

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#conclude #context #conversation #good #good conversation

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#ever #microcosm #more #than #today