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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Drawing Prayer Spiritual
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Days Holy Jesus Names
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Drink Firsts Pope
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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

Blessing Dream Sacrifice
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Dream Ideas Religion
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Change Life Spiritual
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Inspire Religion

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