John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Doubt
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Belief
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities – we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Prejudice
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Belief, Faith
What we love to do we find time to do.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Value of Time, Time Management
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Memory
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Being Ourselves, Courage
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Anxiety, Fear, Worry
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Mothers
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
—John Lancaster Spalding
Topics: Happiness, Contentment
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