#so

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

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#contexts #discourse #forum #happens #human

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

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

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 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

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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#hell #lot #nature #replaces #some

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#cultural #direction #flows #i #i can

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze