We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPrayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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.
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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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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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