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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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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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There 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.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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