Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
"John Lancaster Spalding" was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first Bishop (Catholic Church)/bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.
Peoria, Illinois/Peoria's Catholic high school for boys, Spalding Institute, was named for him; the school was closed in 1989 during the Peoria Notre Dame High School merger. Spalding Hall at The Catholic University of America was also named for him.
More John Lancaster Spalding on Wikipedia.The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
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.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption.
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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