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"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."

"When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian."

"It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."

"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."

"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."
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"One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that."

"I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long."

"And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement."

"We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great."

"And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself."

"If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that."

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part."

"What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ."
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