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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Break Cost Sacrifice Through
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

God Love Voice
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Long Support
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
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
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
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
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
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Eye Religious Waiting

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

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