May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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