Timothy Radcliffe Quotes
"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Rules)
"The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Time, Church, Christ, Humanity)
"The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Truth, Christianity, Challenge)
"The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Faith, Possibility, Confidence, Violence)
"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
(Related: Travel, People, Evening)
"To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Confidence, Humility)
"Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Power, Society, Confidence, Reason)
"We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do."
- 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
(Related: Expertise, Order, Trouble, Years)
"What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Church, Teaching, Will)
"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Christianity, Goodness, Respect, Teaching, Today)
"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
(Related: God, People, Christianity, Church, Challenge)
"One of our deepest needs is to be at home."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Home, Needs)
"All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Violence)
"At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Christianity, Community)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Sex, Celibacy, Humanity)
"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Morality, Thinking)
"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Truth, Intolerance, Violence)
"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
(Related: War, Truth, Absurdity, Being, Genocide)
"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Death, God, Humanity)
"I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Faith, Christian)
"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Christ, Judaism)
"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
(Related: God, Gods)
"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
(Related: Faith, Peace, Europe)