Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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