Robert Runcie
Robert Runcie
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, MC, PCwas a British Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth2 October 1921
travel people age
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
jesus religion half
The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."
loyalty spring war
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
christian hatred passionate
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
thinking people saint
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
worry faces insult
If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.
passionate
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
applied dangerous god love loyalty offered springs war
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.