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

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.

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.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

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

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.