#ge

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

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

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #culture #envied #might #sensitive

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

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#both #call #christians #common #community

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#access #anxieties #anxiety #attention #care

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#item #itself #often #remains #unchanged

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#change #did #does #end #ever

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#altogether #avoid #finds #him #how