Daily Inspiration Quote by George Carey

Carey’s sentence performs a careful balancing act: it’s a celebration, a reassurance, and a nudge disguised as mild optimism. The key tell is the double register of “in my own country” and “I’m delighted.” He’s not making an abstract theological claim; he’s staking out a national, institutional narrative of progress, as if the Church of England’s internal struggle can be narrated like a public reform story. That framing matters. It domesticates controversy by casting it as something “we’ve seen through” rather than something still fissuring congregations and clergy.

The phrase “through the ordination of women” is doing heavy lifting. “Through” implies passage, trial, even ordeal, suggesting the argument is essentially settled - or at least that the institution has survived it. It’s clerical diplomacy: acknowledge the heat without naming the dissenters, then move briskly past them. The delight reads as pastoral warmth, but also as a strategic signal to modern Britain that the church is not stuck in amber.

Then comes the quiet power move: “that will move on to another level before very long.” Carey gestures at change without specifying it, letting the audience supply what’s next (women bishops, fuller equality, structural reform). Vagueness becomes leverage; it keeps conservatives from bolting while assuring reformers that the trajectory is inevitable. The subtext is incrementalism as governance: history is presented not as a debate but as a conveyor belt.

In context, this is establishment Anglicanism trying to remain the nation’s moral language while absorbing social change. Carey’s intent isn’t only to endorse women’s ordination; it’s to narrate the church as competent, forward-moving, and still in charge of its own evolution.