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Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.


Rowan Williams


#bishop #bishops #disappoint #even #how

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.


A. N. Wilson


#advice #ago #am #archbishop #bewildered

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.


Richard Cardinal Cushing


#church #fun #govern #priests #will

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.


Michael Novak


#awful #bishop #character #even #every

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.


Sydney Smith


#berkeley #bishop #destroyed #experienced #fate

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.


Sydney Smith


#archbishop #canterbury #i #illusion #left

We were like bishops of opposite color.


Boris Spassky


#color #like #opposite #were

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.


Howard Staunton


#bishop #board #diagonally #extent #forwards

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.


John Strachan


#ago #appointed #bishop #diffuse #dominions

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.


Frank Butler


#call #close #decisions #like #them






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