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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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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.
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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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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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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.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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