Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
¶ (Attributed)
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Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890) English prelate and theologian
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it.
¶ (Attributed)
Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
¶ (Attributed)
Never... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced.
¶ (Attributed)
There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus, God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way.
¶ Meditations and Devotions
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