Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANO loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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