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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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