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We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

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Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.

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One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.

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Though many men would be content to follow Christ by taking up their cross, few would be willing to follow Him by denying their reason.

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It is no more irrational for the mind to take the word of the Eternal Word than for the eye to use light and for the ear to welcome sound.

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The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

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Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.

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Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.

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It is somewhat surprising that collections of the 'hundred best books,' which usually begin with the Bible and generally include Marcus Aurelius, should give no place to the Acts of the General Councils, though mere literary works have done little beyond filling vacant hours, and these Acts have renewed the face of the earth.

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Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Clergyman

Born: July 8th, 1868

Died: June 17th, 1943

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