Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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I 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.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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