Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANSuch is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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