By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANA great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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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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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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