O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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