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…

- Geoffrey Fisher

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 …

- Geoffrey Fisher

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…

- Geoffrey Fisher

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

- Geoffrey Fisher

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 hav…

- Geoffrey Fisher

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 …

- Geoffrey Fisher

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 be…

- Geoffrey Fisher

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

- Geoffrey Fisher

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

- Geoffrey Fisher