Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANDear 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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