Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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