24 Quotes by Geoffrey Fisher

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man’s ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul.

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning’s letters.

I say to you Baptists, “Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else.” Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.