Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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