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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Remuneration Treasure Years
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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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Judgment Matter Said
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
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
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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Depth Height Way
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
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
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
Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Dear Lord Love Shining
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

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