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Rowan D. Williams

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The identity of Rowan D. Williams may be elusive, but the power of their words is anything but. Rowan D. Williams's observations on Health are as sharp as their thoughts on Communication, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Discover 13 of Rowan D. Williams's most memorable quotes, ranging across Health, Communication, Wisdom, Marriage, and God. One standout: "Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."

“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”

— Rowan D. Williams

God

All Quotes by Rowan D. 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.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Health

“Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Communication

“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”

— Rowan D. Williams

God

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

— Rowan D. Williams

Equality

“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.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Beauty

“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.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Wisdom

“In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Age

“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.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Health

“To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Communication

“In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Health

“Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.”

— Rowan D. Williams

Health