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 NEWMANPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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