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 NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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