It requires an act of faith, and not a little act, to say so. But so it is; the Infinite, the Omnipotent, the All-Holy is our bosom friend . . . There is no real friend but God. He is in His own world almost the solitary example of the beauty of fidelity . . . He forgives offences as fast as we commit them, and appears to forget as soon as He has forgiven.
-- Father Faber
How many who go out
a latere Jesu in the morning bright and peaceful, have come back at night downcast and sad, with many memories unworthy a servant and friend. Still He is always the same. We vary and change, and are overcast and lose our morning light. A blight and tarnish fall upon us. But He is unchangeable in love, pity, and forgiveness.
-- Cardinal Manning
