Words Worth Noting - September 19, 2022

‘‘My very dear sons, it is better never to undertake any high enterprise than to abandon it when once begun….’”

Pope Gregory, in reply to an appeal from St. Augustine of Canterbury and others to be excused from attempting to evangelize the English nation because “they were appalled at the idea of going to a barbarous, fierce, and pagan nation, of whose very language they were ignorant”, quoted in Bede A History of the English Church and People