#god

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#bible #character #christian #communicate #god

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 D. Williams

#being #community #covenant #first #god

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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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

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

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #fellowship #god #hearing #joy

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

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#could #federation #feel #god #got

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#called #commitment #god #his #invitation

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#guinea #guinea pigs #humanity #just #laboratory