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

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

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

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

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.