O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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