Robert Runcie
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.Collection: Religion
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.Collection: Travel
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.
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.Collection: Adversity
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.Collection: Loyalty
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."Collection: Jesus
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.Collection: Christian
Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.Collection: Government
If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.Collection: Worry