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Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

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Real, Media, People

"Rowan Williams says goodbye to Canterbury in BBC documentary" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Rowan Williams

Jesus, Names, Perspective

"New archbishop issues warning on Iraq" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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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 Williams

Beauty, Order, Creative

Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Rowan Williams (1999). “Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology”, Tamp;t Clark Ltd

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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

Rowan Williams

Love, Way, Creation

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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 Williams

Wisdom, World, Way

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Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

Rowan Williams

New Year, Real, Years

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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

Rowan Williams

Christian, Second Chance, Community

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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

Rowan Williams

Judging, Attention, Way

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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

Rowan Williams

Church, Whole, Knows

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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Rowan Williams

Anger, Culture, Growing

Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Rowan Williams

Equality, Rewards, Way

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We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

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Destiny, Our World, Guarantees That

"Our duty to the earth" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2009.

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The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

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Views, World, Creation

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It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

Rowan Williams

Christian, Heart, Community

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Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

Rowan Williams

Mistake, Cutting, Thinking

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What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

Rowan Williams

Marketing, Empires, Degrees

"The new head of the Anglican church ... in his own words" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2002.

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Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

Rowan Williams

People, Bishops, Used

"A quiet man who said too much" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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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 Williams

Christian, Believe, World

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We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

Rowan Williams

Jesus, Commitment, Shows

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A public is a necessary fiction.

Rowan Williams

Fiction

"This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Rowan Williams

Today, Wells, Microcosm

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Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Rowan Williams

Communication, Media, Democracy

"This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Rowan Williams

Christian, Thinking, Interest

"Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams resigns as he says successor must have 'constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 16, 2012.

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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

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Spiritual, Age, Culture

Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.243, Bloomsbury Publishing

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In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

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Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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