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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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Famous Rowan Williams Quotes

“Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.”

Should Christian Church Justice Poor Campaigns Campaigning

Author:Rowan Williams

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

Thinking Stills Christian Interest Deals Christian Faith

Author:Rowan Williams

“It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.”

Ifs Doe Matter Shows Christian Please Victim Humanist Hinduism Killers What Matters

Author:Rowan Williams

“Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.”

Way Character Christian Sex Our Lives Teaching Communicate Christian Living Isolated Prohibition Character Of God Christian Teaching

Author: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 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

“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

“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

“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

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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