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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.

John Henry Newman

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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Found Function Science
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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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Action Done Practice
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
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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Beautiful Moral Perfect
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Decision Reflection Want
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
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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Bird Instruments Resources
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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Doe Guilt Responsibility
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.
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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Remuneration Treasure Years
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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Guide Judging Men Party
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy

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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