This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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