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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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