Geoffrey Fisher
Geoffrey Fisher
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, GCVO, PCwas Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961...
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 May 1887
talking leader church
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.
holiday sight feelings
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.
morning evil doubt
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.
interesting soul life-is
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
dare home overseas profoundly wish
Dare I say that when he is at home I wish he was overseas, and still more profoundly when he is overseas I wish he was at home?