It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPrayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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