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The children of Babylon are miserable indeed; they are slaves to passions that can never be satisfied; to a world that can never be contented; to infernal tyrants that are continually dragging them along with them towards hell: they are slaves to empty vanities, childish toys, and lying follies; laboring under a variety of fears, cares, sorrows, uneasinesses, and innumerable other evils, without enjoying so much as any one solid or lasting satisfaction.

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Sanctity does not so much depend upon doing extraordinary actions, as upon doing our ordinary actions extraordinarily well.

Richard Challoner

The perfection of our ordinary actions depends upon the purity of intention.

Richard Challoner

Few indeed are ignorant of their carnal sins; though even in these, sometimes persons deceive themselves, but very many take little or no notice of their spiritual sins, which are more interior; and, though less infamous in the eyes of men, are more heinous in the sight of God.

Richard Challoner

What we ask of God, is mercy, grace, and salvation: now our faith assures us, there is no means of coming at mercy, grace, or salvation, but through Jesus Christ.

Richard Challoner

Richard Challoner

Richard Challoner

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Born: August 29, 1691

Died: January 12, 1781 (aged 89)

Bio: His Excellency, The Right Reverend Bishop Richard Challoner, Bishop of Debra was an English Roman Catholic bishop, a leading figure of English Catholicism during the greater part of the 18th century.

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