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According to limited information, Rowan Williams is a poet born on June 14, 1950. Specific biographical details and representative works are not readily available.

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“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.”

Source: Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief

“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 by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.”

Source: Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another

“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 times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.”

Silence Integrity Silence Is

Book:Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another

Source: Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another

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

People World Church Levels Hunger New World

Author:Rowan Williams

“The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.”

Answers Taken Effects Particular Paid Bills Clean Treatment Hospitals Hospitality Captives Burundi

Author:Rowan Williams

“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.”

Common Democracy Media Communication Serving Secrecy Attacking Common Good

Author:Rowan Williams

“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.”

May Important Christian Community Chance Return Letters Generous Urges Spells Chapters Second Chance Christian Community

Author:Rowan Williams

“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?”

World Way Shows Understanding

Book:Faith in the Public Square

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness”

Should Used Humanity Planets Resources Selfishness Warehouse

Author:Rowan Williams

“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.”

World Order Beauty Creative Absolutes Strive Chaos Triumph Strife Converting

Book:Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology

Source: Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology

“In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.”

Stills Hands Term Trust Enormous Inevitable Spite Shock Fog Speculation Inadequacy Haze

Author:Rowan Williams

“One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.”

Action Courses Interest Powerful Media Offers Most Powerful Defence Controversial Public Interest

Author:Rowan Williams

“To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.”

Wells Long Helping Action Poor Liberty Poverty Offers Essentials Capacity Confined Help The Poor

Author:Rowan Williams

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

Way Findings Rewards Equality

Author:Rowan Williams

“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.”

World Heart Christian Purpose Humanity Community Common Impossible Raised Deny Agendas

Author:Rowan Williams

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

Way Love Creation God Love Generous Productive Realised Generous Love

Author:Rowan Williams

“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.”

World Believe Christian Certain Nations Disciple

Author:Rowan Williams

“I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.”

Believe Truth Values I Believe Process Unity

Author:Rowan Williams

“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.”

World Way Wisdom Objects Eternal Realms Finite Interacting Actuality

Author:Rowan Williams

“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'.”

People Used Realising Bishops Disappoint Wales

Author:Rowan Williams

About the Author

Born: June 14, 1950
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 70

Books & Sources

Faith in the Public SquareRelated source material

Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury CathedralRelated source material

A Ray of DarknessRelated source material

Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian LifeRelated source material

Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian BeliefRelated source material

Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One AnotherRelated source material

Christ the Heart of CreationRelated source material

Meeting God in Mark: Reflections for the Season of LentRelated source material

Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theologyRelated source material

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