Timothy Radcliffe Quotes

• Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Beauty, Sex, Humanity

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Nov. 30-Dec. 6)" by Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  People, Challenges, Church

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• This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Beautiful, Christian, Travel

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• We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  People, Parent, Depth

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• The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Airports, Order, Years

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• Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  War, Believe, Lasts

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Prejudice, Would Be, Priesthood

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• Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Seeking, Commandments

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• To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Humility, Two

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• We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Fog, Knowing, Frodo

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• At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Community, Good Christian, Christianity

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• I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Relationship, Believe, Humanity

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• Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Relationship, Shapes, Narrative

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• What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Teaching, Judgement, Church

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• All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Violence

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.85, A&C Black

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• The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Holocaust, Stories

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.91, A&C Black

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• Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Doe, Violence, Intolerance

  Timothy Radcliffe (2013). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.116, A&C Black

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• The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Humanity, Church, Resurrection

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• Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Our Society, Reason

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Thinking, Way, Morality

  "Busted: Timothy Radcliffe, OP". Interview with Bill McGarvey, bustedhalo.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Respect, Teaching, Littles

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• The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Challenges, Next, Christianity

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• The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Keys, Europe, Tears

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• The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Israel, Stories, Kingdoms

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