Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in…

— Henry Edward Manning

To those who are His all things are not only easy to be borne, but even to be gladly chosen. Their will…

— Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one…

— Henry Edward Manning

You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does…

— Henry Edward Manning

Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one…

— Henry Edward Manning

One must overcome history by dogma.

— Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice…

— Henry Edward Manning

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

— Henry Edward Manning

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in…

— Henry Edward Manning