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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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