It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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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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.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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