The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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