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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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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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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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