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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLearn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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