Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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I 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.
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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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