Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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