Henry Edward Manning Quotes

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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.

Henry Edward Manning
There are only two centres, God and ourselves; and we must rest on one or the other. We cannot rest on both.

Henry Edward Manning
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 penal laws. They hardened the manhood of Catholic parents. The summer sun relaxes many.

Henry Edward Manning
No ignorance of truth is a personal sin before God, except that ignorance which springs from personal sin.

Henry Edward Manning
God attracts us to Him by instincts, and desires, and aspirations after a happiness higher than sense, and more enduring, more changeless, than this mortal life. God speaks to us articulately in the stirring life of nature, and in the silence of our own being.

Henry Edward Manning
Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

Henry Edward Manning
A necessity of my reason constrains me to believe the existence of God, because I can in no other way account for my own existence. I am either uncaused, or self-caused, or caused by a cause.

Henry Edward Manning
Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Henry Edward Manning
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

Henry Edward Manning
To those who are His all things are not only easy to be borne, but even to be gladly chosen. Their will is united to that will which moves heaven and earth, which gives laws to angels, and rules the courses of the world.

Henry Edward Manning