I Wonder What Day I

Cruelty To Animals Is As If Humans Did Not Love God.

Why Should We Be Willing To Go By Faith? We Do All Things In This World By Faith In The Word Of Others. By Faith Only We Know Our Position In The World, Our Circumstances, Our Rights And Privileges, Our Fortunes, Our Parents, Our Brothers And Sisters, Our Age, Our Mortality. Why Should Religion Be An Exception?

It Is Very Difficult To Get Up Resentment Towards Persons Whom One Has Never Seen.

Now What Is It Moves Our Very Hearts, And Sickens Us So Much At Cruelty Shown To Poor Brutes? I Suppose This First, That They Have Done No Harm; Next, That They Have No Power Whatever Of Resistance; It Is The Cowardice And Tyranny Of Which They Are The Victims Which Makes Their Sufferings So Especially Touching.

Feast Of Clare Of Assisi, Founder Of The Order Of Minoresses (poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration Of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It Is Our Great Relief That God Is Not Extreme To Mark What Is Done Amiss, That He Looks At The Motives, And Accepts And Blesses In Spite Of Incidental Errors.