May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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