Quotes by Geoffrey Fisher - Page 1

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Inspirational
Moving
Perfection
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Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Ends
Left
Left Out
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The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Christianity
Joy
Long
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Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Life
Interesting
Spiritual
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This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Commonwealth
Heaven
Tuesday
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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Cities
Country
Loneliness
Lonely
Quiet
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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Capital Punishment
Controversy
Distressing
Long
Meditating
Murder
Punishment
Unfair
Capital
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Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Book
Mundane
Retirement
Tempted
Writing
Minds
Shall
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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.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Men
Civilized
Civilized Society
Ought
Responsibility
Sin
Ultimate
Crimes
Likely
Sins
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My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Decided
Feelings
Holiday
Sight
Ring
Bull
Enter
Holidays
Perhaps
Schoolboy
Seriously
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There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Men
Law
Rights
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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.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Church
England
Thinking
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There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Christian
People
Two
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Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Dare
Enemy
Limits
People
Song
Freedom People Will
Countless
Enemies
Loudly
Picked
Press
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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.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Morning
Bent
Doubt
Each Day
Evil
Letters
No Doubt
Twice
Acute
Morning Myself Look
Failed
Lately
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I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Catholic
Pope
Propaganda
Purpose
Trouble
Caused
Date
Ordinarily
Purely
Visit
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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.
Geoffrey Fisher / Archbishop Of Canterbury
Church
Leader
Talking
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