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.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.