To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt’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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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