Success Quote by Geoffrey Fisher

There is something bracingly unsentimental in a clergyman describing his vocation as a daily hunt for fresh trouble. Fisher frames “natural bent” not as a warm, inner calling but as a disciplined habit of attention: scan the day for its particular form of “evil,” then “have a go at it.” The phrase is almost combative, and that’s the point. He refuses the pious fantasy that spiritual leadership lives in timeless abstractions. It lives in the inbox.

The subtext is administrative as much as moral. “Each morning’s letters” signals the machinery of institution and crisis: complaints, conflicts, failures, quiet scandals, parish worries, political pressure. Fisher turns what could sound like drudgery into a kind of moral liturgy. The trick is how he normalizes confrontation. Evil isn’t an apocalyptic force; it’s the day’s specific, actionable problem. That framing lowers the drama and raises the responsibility.

Context matters: Fisher’s career spans two world wars and culminates in the postwar period when the Church of England is renegotiating its authority amid a changing welfare state and fading deference. In that environment, “interest” in letters isn’t curiosity; it’s survival, a commitment to governance as pastoral care. Even the echo of the biblical “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” works as a quiet thesis: don’t romanticize holiness. Measure it by whether you showed up this morning, read what people wrote, and chose to engage rather than retreat.