Geoffrey Fisher Quotes

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

  Geoffrey Fisher

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• This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

  Geoffrey Fisher

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• The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

  Geoffrey Fisher

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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

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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

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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

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  Tags in Self, Feeling, Schoolboy

• In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

  Geoffrey Fisher

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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

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  Tags in Civilized, Responsibility

• 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the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date.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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Catholic, Protestant, Propaganda, Purposes

• 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

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  Tags in Natural, Bent, Acute, Interest

Geoffrey Fisher (10)

Birth:	5th May, 1887
Death:	15th September, 1972
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bishop, Teacher

About

Geoffrey Francis Fisher was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961. He was educated at Marlborough and Exeter College, Oxford. He was an assistant master at Marlborough College when he decided to be ordained, becoming a priest in 1913. In 1914 he was appointed Headmaster of Repton School, succeeding William Temple, whom he later also succeeded as Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1932 he was appointed Bishop of Chester, and in 1939 he became Bishop of London.

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