"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
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"If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture."
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"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."
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"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."
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"We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints."
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"The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness"
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"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."
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"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."
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"In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation."
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"Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation."
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"Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm."
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"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."
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"We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die."
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"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."
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"Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies."
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"Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication."
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"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."
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