In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. - John Henry Newman

Whatever be historical Christianity, it is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

Men live after their death—they live not only in their writings or their chronicled history, but still more in that ἄγραφος μνήμη exhibited in a school of pupils who trace their moral parentage to them.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ, a prophet in its informations, a monarch in its peremptoriness, a priest in its blessings and anathemas, and, even though the eternal priesthood throughout the Church could cease to be, in it the sacerdotal principle would remain and would have a sway.