Timothy Radcliffe Quotes

• 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

  Beauty, Sex, Humanity

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Nov. 30-Dec. 6)" by Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.

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• 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

  People, Challenges, Church

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• 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

  Beautiful, Christian, Travel

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• We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

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  People, Parent, Depth

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• El problema es que, después de nueve años como aprendiz de todo y Maestro de la Orden Dominicana, no tengo experiencia en nada, excepto en aeropuertos y comidas exóticas.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Airports, Order, Years

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• 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

  War, Believe, Lasts

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Prejudice, Would Be, Priesthood

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• Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Seeking, Commandments

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• To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Humility, Two

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• We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Fog, Knowing, Frodo

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• At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Community, Good Christian, Christianity

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Relationship, Believe, Humanity

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• La mayoría de las religiones viven de una narrativa que configura su relación con el otro divino, Dios o los dioses, y con el otro humano, el extraño.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Relationship, Shapes, Narrative

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• 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

  Teaching, Judgement, Church

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• All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Violencia

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.85, A&C Black

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Holocaust, Stories

  Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.91, A&C Black

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• Afirmar que se tiene la verdad bien guardada engendra violencia e intolerancia.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Doe, Violence, Intolerance

  Timothy Radcliffe (2013). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.116, A&C Black

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Humanity, Church, Resurrection

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Thinking, Way, Morality

  "Busted: Timothy Radcliffe, OP". Interview with Bill McGarvey, bustedhalo.com. April 04, 2008.

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• 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

  Cristiano, Religioso, Ateo

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• To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Respect, Teaching, Littles

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Stories, Judaism

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Challenges, Next, Christianity

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

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Believe, Doe

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• Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Europe, People, Christianity

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