Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANYou 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.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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