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… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share
To those who are His all things are not only easy to be borne, but even to be gladly chosen. Their will is united… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude 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; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own,… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share
You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
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.… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
