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A public is a necessary fiction. Rowan Williams

Fiction Public Necessary

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. Rowan Williams

Communication Bad Leaves Human Room Us Less Grow

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

Justice Church Campaign Campaigning Poor Should Christians

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

Age Culture Admired Something Spiritually Envied Well Sensitive Might Then

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 Williams

Life Health Anxiety Simple Old Care Getting Old Stage High About Facilities Enviable Attention Idea Sharp Access Hear Mobility Contrast Anxieties Getting Routine Levels

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. Rowan Williams

Kindness Better Cruelty Our Shape Simply How Surface Context Encounter Than Agree Beliefs Actual Bring Need

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. Rowan Williams

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 Williams

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. Rowan Williams

People World Church Hunger New Exists New World Connect Level

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. Rowan Williams

History Tyranny Inevitable Nothing Complacent Tell Tells About Also May Century Us Twentieth Twentieth Century Humankind Recent Recent History

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 Williams

Health Liberty Gift Long Poverty Own Action Something Well Offer Offered Essential Confined Cannot Which Poor Capacity Help

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. Rowan Williams

Needs Trust People Important Community Meet Develop Put Develops Institutions Because Real Lot Trusting Begin Gradually Represent Suspicion Banks Whether Them Themselves Working Aspirations Media Actually

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith. Rowan Williams

Faith Great Great Deal Christian Think Deal Still Interest Christian Faith

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. Rudolf Otto

God Nature Beauty Splendor Does His Greatness Child Notice Works

I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart. Said Nursi

I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom. Said Nursi

Freedom Live Without Bread

The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world. Said Nursi

Life World Outcome Hereafter

The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice. Said Nursi

Justice Universe Aims Worship Oneness Throughout Resurrection Mainly Maker Existence Verses Truths Establish Confirm Bodily Basic Four Universal

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works. Said Nursi

Single Unity Universe Everything Thousand Dressed Fact Divine Like Names Being Works Universal Number

When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism. Said Nursi

Work Myself Great Sometimes Pride Old Assume Heroism Took Air Some Someone Ten Ten Years Great Pride Had Great Work Although Undertaking Years Did Want Form Which Boasting Mighty Act Used Even

Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an. Said Nursi

God Me Three Before Thanks Every Sleeping Spend Books Months Those Would Staying Through Take Had Steps Over Hours Became Around Go His Lot Truths Going Ascending Room Works Residence Assigned Every Night Night

Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation. Said Nursi

God Knowledge Science Argument Universe Virtue Perfect Investigation Contained Contains Names Most Truths Realities Pertaining Many Belief Based

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth. Said Nursi

Truth Humanity Three Universe Kinds

The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection. Said Nursi

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