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 NEWMANMay 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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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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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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