It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly. ✨ Richard Whately, William FITZGERALD (successively Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, and of Killaloe.) (1853). Cautions for the times; addressed to the parishioners of a parish in England by their former Rector. Edited and partly written by the Archbishop of Dublin, p.379
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