#is

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#because #between #chosen #covenant #different

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

#being #bishop #both #celebrate #challenge

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#always #art #beautiful #disclosure #itself

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#bishop #bishops #disappoint #even #how

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. ↗

— Gilbert White

#district #examined #find #full #greatest

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. ↗

— Gilbert White

#every #ground #numbers #parish #some

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#evil #life

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain. ↗

— Venus Williams

#been #causes #condition #diagnosed #disease

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails. ↗

— Venus Williams

#crazy #focused #get #i #just