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Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Rowan Williams

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Rowan Williams
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 14
Anglican Priest
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Rowan Douglas Williams
Rowan Williams
Baron Williams of Oystermouth
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