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Henry Edward Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892.

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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.

Angel, Chosen, Law, Moving, Things, United

Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life. It is a blessed thought that from our childhood God has been laying his fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction, and that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

Blessed, Gratitude, Multitudes, Smallest, Thanksgiving, Thought

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

Author, Critic, Criticize, Critics, Somewhat, Writing

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

Fellowship, Fellowship With God, God, Habit, Life, Spring

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

Character

One must overcome history by dogma.

Dogma, History, Overcome, Overcoming

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Fewer, Generous, Humble, Men, Riches

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church?. . . I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. . . . The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

Church, Denies, Except, Hour, May, Voice

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

Firsts, Human, Invert, Order, Ordomestic, Wages

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.

Giving, Life, Light, Recognition, See, Things

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

Duty, Involves, Obedience, Principle, Principles

You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Consist, Conversation, Heart, Heaven, Simple

One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth. " (Acts 9:11). Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.

Book, Breathing, Christian, Converted, Prayer, Remember

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

Consist, Doe, Heart, Holiness, Thing

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