O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANSuch 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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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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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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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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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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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