Rowan Williams Way Quotations

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.

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

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

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?

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