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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

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

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#believe #certain #certain things #christian #commanded

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

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#exceeding #expectations #first #first step #know

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

#become #created #eternal #finite #god

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

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

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right. ↗

— Serena Williams

#beautiful #both #inside #out #right