“God
has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to
me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission—I never may know it
in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for
His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his—if, indeed, I
fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham.
Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of
connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I
shall do His work.” — John Henry Cardinal Newman, “Meditations on Christian
Doctrine” (March 7, 1848), in The Newman Reader: Meditations and Devotions, Part 3Sunday, October 2, 2016
Quote of the Day (John Henry Cardinal Newman, on Our Creation for ‘Some Definite Service’)
“God
has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to
me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission—I never may know it
in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for
His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his—if, indeed, I
fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham.
Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of
connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I
shall do His work.” — John Henry Cardinal Newman, “Meditations on Christian
Doctrine” (March 7, 1848), in The Newman Reader: Meditations and Devotions, Part 3
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