The softness, and the glare, and the temptations, and the licence, and the lax examples about us, are more seducing and dangerous than the winter of … - Henry Edward Manning

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.

God knows that I would rather stand in the lowest place within the Truth, than in the highest without it. Nay, outside the Truth the higher the worse. It is only so much more opposition to Truth, so much more propagation of falsehood.

What is dogma but the intellectual conception and verbal expression of a divine truth?