Prayer Is To The Spiritual Life What

Feast Of Clare Of Assisi, Founder Of The Order Of Minoresses (poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration Of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It Is Our Great Relief That God Is Not Extreme To Mark What Is Done Amiss, That He Looks At The Motives, And Accepts And Blesses In Spite Of Incidental Errors.

Egotism Is True Modesty. In Religious Enquiry Each Of Us Can Speak Only For Himself.

There Are Wounds Of The Spirit Which Never Close And Are Intended In God's Mercy To Bring Us Nearer To Him, And To Prevent Us Leaving Him By Their Very Perpetuity. Such Wounds Then May Almost Be Taken As A Pledge, Or At Least As A Ground For A Humble Trust, That God Will Give Us The Great Gift Of Perseverance To The End. This Is How I Comfort Myself In My Own Great Bereavements.

A Man Would Do Nothing If He Waited Until He Could Do It So Well That No One Could Find Fault.

I Want A Laity, Not Arrogant, Not Rash In Speech, Not Disputatious, But Men Who Know Their Religion, Who Enter Into It, Who Know Just Where They Stand, Who Know What They Hold And What They Do Not, Who Know Their Creed So Well That They Can Give An Account Of It, Who Know So Much Of History That They Can Defend It.