Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina…

The noble must make humility his root.

— Laozi

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every…

— Andrew Murray

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

— John Chrysostom

“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His…

— Andrew Murray

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light…

— Saint John Chrysostom

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

— Malachi Martin

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

— Yuri Razuvaev

We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

— Karen Armstrong

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

— Raymond Chandler

I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

— John Shelby Spong

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

— George Orwell

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion…

— Pope Francis

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my…

— John Noble

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,…

— Anonymous