Rowan D. Williams

“The heart of the Christian faith is the story of a God who comes to us, not a God we have to climb up to.”

“Fundamentalism is a religious response to a religious problem... It is an attempt to recover a lost sense of certainty.”

“The Bible is not a set of instructions, but a library of varied and sometimes conflicting voices that have to be wrestled with.”

“Love is not a matter of what we feel, but of what we do.”

“The purpose of the Church is to make the invisible kingdom of God visible in the world.”

“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”

“What is forgiveness? It is not a matter of forgetting. It is a matter of deciding that the past will not have the last word.”

“To be a Christian is to be a person of hope.”

“The resurrection is not a bizarre miracle, but the logical conclusion of a life lived in radical trust of God.”

“We can't afford to be confused about what is trivial and what is important.”

“Theology is the activity of talking about God, making sense of the language we use when we talk about God.”

“A society that does not have a place for prayer is a society that has lost its soul.”

“The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling upon men and women to become peacemakers.”

“To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to have turned from the worship of created things to the worship of the creator.”

“The cross is the heart of the story. It’s the most compelling image of God’s unconditional love.”