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… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share
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
