Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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