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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAn 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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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