This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.
ATTRIBUTION:
Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890), British churchman, theologian. “History of My Religious Opinions from 1839-1841,” Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864).
