I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

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.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.