To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN