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.
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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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