32 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

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

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

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