"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
So said Jesus to his followers according to the Gospel of Matthew.
His message, while sometimes disputed, is generally believed to have been quite a dark one.
So filled with evils is each given day, said the son of God, that humanity should simply battle its way through this dark and hopeless world 24 hours at a time - without dwelling on the potential evil to come.
So when Michael Gove was asked if he would stand to lead the Tories, the decision to quote from Matthew 6:34 says a lot.
It doesn't take the Archbishop of Canterbury to work out that he might think that the combination of the Tories slumping to fifth in the polls, Brexit negotiations with Labour going to the brink and a party at war with itself makes the idea of leading the Tories perhaps not the most appealing one.
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Asked by ITV's Robert Peston if he was planning to stand in the contest when Theresa May stood down he decided to get biblical.
He said: "I'm concentrating purely at the moment on talks process and getting Brexit over the line.
"I think sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
Asked if he was ruling himself out he confirmed "it is not a no".
But he also had a message for those trying to push Theresa May out of the door before the current strand of the Brexit negotiations are finished.
He said: "The Prime Minister has very graciously said that when that time comes, she will stand down for the next Conservative leader to take the country through the next phase of Brexit.
"I think we should honour the Prime Minister's commitment... and I think the right thing for the Prime Minister to do is focus on getting Brexit over the line."
Mr Gove added that "more important" than the Prime Minister issuing a timetable "all of us should recognise that it's in our national interest and our own responsibility as elected members of Parliament to get Brexit over the line" first.
