Robert Runcie Quotes

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People are mourning on both sides of this conflict. In our prayers we shall quite rightly remember those who are bereaved in our own country and the relations of the young Argentinian soldiers who were killed. Common sorrow could do something to reunite those who were engaged in this struggle. A shared anguish can be a bridge of reconciliation. Our neighbours are indeed like us.

Robert Runcie

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Robert Runcie

Letter to his biographer:

I have done my best to die before this book is published.

Robert Runcie

Without centuries of Christian anti-Semitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

Robert Runcie

I never liked the prospect of enquiring into what happened in a man's bedroom unless he's prepared to tell me.

Robert Runcie

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Robert Runcie

The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

Robert Runcie

It is part of an archbishop's task to prevent the Church trying to sting itself to death like a demented scorpion.

Robert Runcie

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.

Robert Runcie