Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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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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