To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

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.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.