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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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