George Carey
George Carey
George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, PC, FRSAis a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. During his time as archbishop the Church of England ordained its first women priests and the debate over attitudes to homosexuality became more prominent, especially at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth13 November 1934
deeply greatly loved mother mum queen
Queen, Queen Mother, Queen Mum -- deeply loved and greatly missed,
fire goes prayer takes
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busy-ness takes over.
people rejected
Too many people -- especially young people -- feel rejected and undervalued,
afford four round worship
Worship comes first of course, but this (the World Cup) comes round only every four years so we can afford to be flexible.
trust
We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.
great happened people pleasure
I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.
absolutely create positive wonderful
Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.
elderly herself ignored
I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time.
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I think it's quite incredible how the community pulled behind the victims and the others who were affected by the hurricanes. I've never seen anything like it, besides here in the United States. And we've spend the last 17 years or so living outside the U.S.
expert management people
People have described me as a ''management bishop'' but I say to my critics, ''Jesus was a management expert too.''
thinking september-11 spurs
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
religious hands scripture
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
christian play records
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
christian thinking views
From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.