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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.

John Henry Newman

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

God Love Voice
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Break Cost Sacrifice Through
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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Evil Excess Substance
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Passion Sky Struggle
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Decay Fickle Needs
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguments People Sympathies
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Drink Firsts Pope
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Attitude Friends Inspirational
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Purpose
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Beautiful Light
It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Decision Reflection Want
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Men Perspective
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Believe Conviction Results
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Remuneration Treasure Years
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Action Done Practice

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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