Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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