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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvery 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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