When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvery breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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