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 all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

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 all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

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.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.