Quotes of Timothy Radcliffe - somelinesforyou

“ Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ When I left school, I became a friend for the first time of people who were not Christians, and who tried to convince me that my views were crazy. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ One of our deepest needs is to be at home. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ One of our deepest needs is to be at home. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ One of our deepest needs is to be at home. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ When I left school, I became a friend for the first time of people who were not Christians, and who tried to convince me that my views were crazy. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe
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