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1808–1892 England
The Most Reverend Dr Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and a cardinal.
Also known as: Henry Manning, Manning, Henry Edward
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All human conflict is ultimately theological.
What is dogma but the intellectual conception and verbal expression of a divine truth?
No ignorance of truth is a personal sin before God, except that ignorance which springs from personal sin.
There are only two centres, God and ourselves; and we must rest on one or on the other.
Our character is our will; for what we will we are.
Necessity knows no law, and the starving man has a natural right to a share of his neighbor's bread.
Intellectual pride inflicts itself upon everybody. Where it dwells there can be no other opinion in the house.
The softness, and the glare, and the temptations, and the licence, and the lax examples about us, are more seducing and dangerous than the winter of penal laws. They hardened the manhood of Catholic parents. The summer sun relaxes many.
A necessity of my reason constrains me to believe the existence of God, because I can in no other way account for my own existence.… I know that I am. I am either uncaused, or self-caused, or caused by a cause.
God knows that I would rather stand in the lowest place within the Truth, than in the highest without it. Nay, outside the Truth the higher the worse. It is only so much more opposition to Truth, so much more propagation of falsehood.
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 us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.
As a dogma, theologians teach that many belong to the Church who are out of its visible unity; as a moral truth that to be out of the Church is no personal sin, except to those who sin in being out of it. That is, they will be lost, not because they are geographically out of it, but because they are culpably out of it.
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