Arthur Middleton Task Quotations

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

Gladstone, at the end of the 19th century, said that the task of the priest had become much more difficult than it had ever been. Today it has worsened rather than improved, in a Church that is divided and in a culture where God has been pushed out of many lives and is not given the opportunity to influence scores of others.