“Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.” HumansHappensNumbersDiscourseUnifiedForumsOf ContextPublic Discourse Author:Rowan Williams
“Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.” WorldHumansLittlesDifferentMomentsRealityLanguageShareMiddleLonelinessBrotherMarriedRelationMovedIntimacyMy BrotherGapsStomachHomosexualOptimistPessimistHuman RelationsDifferent WorldsUnmarriedBrief MomentsUnexpectedness Book:A Ray of Darkness Source: A Ray of Darkness
“A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.” TryingHumansEnvironmentHealthyLimitsAccidentsMake SensePassagesPassage Of Time Book:Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.” HumansGrowsRoomsCommunication Author:Rowan Williams
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldHumansLongUsedStuffTermReligiousDealsExistenceMysteryMiddleHugeRelationCrisisThreatPracticalsLong TermConvenienceHuman ExistenceEcologicalWarehouseMystery Of GodEcological Crisis Book:Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief Source: Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief
