Peter Hollingworth Quotes

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I’m not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

I’m not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field… I was always tending to be in trouble.

I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they’ve been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don’t like is when it’s badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue – the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Over the years I’ve tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I’ve tried to pursue them, and, I’ve had a certain sense of ‘stickability,’ hanging in there, and I suppose that’s me.