Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANStuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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