John Mercer Patton

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    “This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    “We’re after the same rainbow’s end waitin’ round the bend, my Huckleberry friend.”
    —Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

    “If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)