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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

John Henry Newman

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Church Hands Thinking
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Remuneration Treasure Years
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Beautiful Moral Perfect
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
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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Expression Style Thinking
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
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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Bird Instruments Resources
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
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 NEWMAN

Giving Long Support

It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

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