Search quotes by author:    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 


Timothy Radcliffe Quotes


All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

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
Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Timothy Radcliffe
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Timothy Radcliffe
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

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

Timothy Radcliffe
I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Timothy Radcliffe
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

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
One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

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 medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Timothy Radcliffe
The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

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

Timothy Radcliffe
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Timothy Radcliffe
This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Timothy Radcliffe