Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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