Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth PC FBA FRSL FLSWis a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth14 June 1950
CitySwansea, England
Rowan Williams quotes about
assisted certainly defenders desire dying euthanasia motive people spare
I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering,
charles decided mrs pleased
I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.
marriage unique covenant-with-god
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.
understanding world way
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
religious thinking long
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
equality way rewards
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
order creative world
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.
healthy trying limits
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
fiction
A public is a necessary fiction.
christian thinking interest
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
moral climate-change
It's a moral question.
government people support
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
autumn opportunity rome
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
media maintenance common
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.