The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

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

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

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.