And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANDear 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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