Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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