Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Life 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.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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