John Fisher and Thomas More Quotes

“He is arrested, confined in a Tower with limited visitation rights. And when he appears to his tormentors too happily engaged in writing about the passion of Christ, they take his writing utensils away. Improvising, he then writes with coal. Alone, abandoned, imprisoned, approaching execution, in a letter to his kindred spirit daughter Meg, More sums up his philosophy of life: “Therefore, my own good daughter, never trouble your mind over anything that ever shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I make myself very sure that whatsoever that be, even if it seems ever so bad at sight, it shall indeed be the best…. Serve God and be merry and rejoice in him.”93”
― Robert J. Conrad Jr., John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads

“The centrality of conscience is not located in the supreme self but rather in submission to eternal truth. Not More’s truth or Fisher’s truth, or even the king’s truth, but ultimate truth.”
― Robert J. Conrad Jr., John Fisher and Thomas More: Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads