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.
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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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