#sent

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift

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

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. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#contained #creation #end #eyes #greater

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

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#aspirations #banks #because #begin #community

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#real #represent

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me. ↗

— Venus Williams

#been #definitely #designed #dresses #going

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this. ↗

— John Whitehead

#already #british #children #ensure #essential

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#among #applicable #busy #cry #essential

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#being #exercise #get #more #more and more