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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

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Love Soul
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
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Long Support
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dream Ideas Religion
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Death might Years
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Days Holy Jesus Names
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Inspire Religion
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Spiritual
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Enquiry Modesty Religious
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Animal Religious Vegetarian
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Condolences Sympathy
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 NEWMAN

Given Missions Priceless
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 NEWMAN

Blessing Dream Sacrifice

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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