We must work as if all depended on us, and pray as if all depended on God.
God never proposed to do by His direct action all that might be done in and through the Church.

He invites human co-operation, and abandons to it a wide field.

The ages of most active human industry in religious enterprises were the ages of most remarkable spiritual conquests.

The tendency to overlook this fact shows itself among us.
Newman writes that where the sun shines bright in the warm climate of the south, the natives of the place know little of safeguards against cold and wet.

They have their cold days, but only now and then, and they do not deem it worth their while to provide against them: the science of calefaction is reserved for the north.