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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

John Henry Newman

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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Judgment Matter Said
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
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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Bird Instruments Resources
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Knowledge Mind Rewards
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
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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God Love Voice
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
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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Dear Lord Love Shining
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
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.
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Days Holy Jesus Names
You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Eye Religious Waiting
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Remuneration Treasure Years
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Depth Height Way
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Dream Ideas Religion
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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Given Missions Priceless
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
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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Passion Sky Struggle
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
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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Expression Style Thinking

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

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