Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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