Best 27 quotes of Timothy Radcliffe on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of magic mushrooms or a Martian, then this will not make for fertility. There is not enough in common for there to be intercourse in any sense. How different can two believers be for the encounter to be fertile? This is a complex question which we do not need to explore here. Of course ultimately we must share orthodoxy, but this is not to narrow the scope of the conversation; it is to enter the broad terrain of the mystery, in which we are liberated from the tightness of ideology. It is a serious misuse of language to use the word 'orthodox' to mean conservative or, even worse, rigid. Orthodoxy does not lie in the unvarying and thoughtless repetition of received formulas. As Karl Rahner pointed out, that can be a form of heresy. Orthodoxy is speaking about our faith in ways that keep open the pilgrimage towards the mystery. Often it is hard to know immediately whether a new statement of belief is a new way of stating our faith or its betrayal. It takes time for us to tell.