When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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