Catholic Wisdom

"Let us thankfully commemorate the many mercies God has granted it to us in time past, the many sins He has not any longer remembered, the many dangers He has averted, the many prayers He has answered, the many mistakes He has corrected, the many warnings, the many lessons, the much light, the abounding comfort which He has from time to time given. Let us dwell upon times and seasons, times of trouble, times of joy, times of trial, times of refreshment. How He cherished us as His children! How He with His sweet discipline restrained our passions, mortified our hopes, calmed our fears, and livened our heaviness, sweetened our desolateness, and strengthened our infirmities! How He gently guided us toward the narrow gate! How he allured us along His everlasting way, in spite of its difficulty, in spite of its loneliness, in spite of the dim twilight in which it lay! In His goodness, He has been all things to us."

—Saint John Henry Newman, Sermon.