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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

John Henry Newman

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Enquiry Modesty Religious
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Passion Sky Struggle
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men Nature Science
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
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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Fighting Shame Sin
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
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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Decision Reflection Want
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dear Lord Love Shining
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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Evil Excess Substance
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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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Decay Fickle Needs
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Hands Hath Taming

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

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