Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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 is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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