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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.

— Henry Edward Manning

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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.

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