Quotes on Bishops

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.