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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

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.

Tags: beauty, humanity, matter, person

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

Timothy Radcliffe

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

Tags: violence, you, intolerance

About Author
Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe, OP (born 22 August 1945) is an English Catholic priest and Dominican friar who served as master of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 2001. He is the only member of the order's English Province to hold that office.
Radcliffe served as director of the Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars, Oxford, which promotes social justice and human rights. He has been a supporter of outreach to LGBT Catholics.

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

Timothy Radcliffe

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

Tags: death, relationship

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

Timothy Radcliffe

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

Tags: faith

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

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.

Tags: faith, peace

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

Timothy Radcliffe

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

Tags: faith

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

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.

Tags: relationship

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

Timothy Radcliffe

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

Tags: respect

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

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.

Tags: travel