The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

- Rowan Williams

The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God,…

- Rowan Williams

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

- Rowan Williams

The past is what the present is doing now.

- Rowan Williams

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at ti…

- Rowan Williams

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

- Rowan Williams

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to…

- Rowan Williams

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness i…

- Rowan Williams

I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin …

- Rowan Williams