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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANSomehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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