Lead, Kindly Light, Amid The Encircling Gloom,

All That Is Good, All That Is True, All That Is Beautiful, All That Is Beneficent, Be It Great Or Small, Be It Perfect Or Fragmentary, Natural As Well As Supernatural, Moral As Well As Material, Comes From God.

This Is What The Church Is Said To Want, Not Party Men, But Sensible, Temperate, Sober, Well-judging Persons, To Guide It Through The Channel Of No-meaning, Between The Scylla And Charybdis Of Aye And No.

Purity Prepares The Soul For Love, And Love Confirms The Soul In Purity.

Faith ... Acts Promptly And Boldly On The Occasion, On Slender Evidence.

How Can We Feel Our Need Of His Help, Or Our Dependence On Him, Or Our Debt To Him, Or The Nature Of His Gift To Us, Unless We Know Ourselves.... This Is Why Many In This Age (and In Every Age) Become Infidels, Heretics, Schismatics, Disloyal Despisers Of The Church.... They Have Never Had Experience Of His Power And Love, Because They Have Never Known Their Own Weakness And Need.