Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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