Robert Runcie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
-- Robert Runcie

#Travel #People #Age
The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."
-- Robert Runcie

#Jesus #Religion #Half
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
-- Robert Runcie

#Loyalty #Spring #War
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
-- Robert Runcie

#Christian #Hatred #Passionate
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
-- Robert Runcie

#Thinking #People #Saint
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
-- Robert Runcie

#Groups #Claims #Assets
If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.
-- Robert Runcie

#Worry #Faces #Insult
Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.
-- Robert Runcie

#Government #Faces #Royalty

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

Robert Runcie famous quotes

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