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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Inspirational Wish
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
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Drink Firsts Pope
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Mother Religious Today
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Remuneration Treasure Years
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Spiritual
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Men Perspective
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Expression Style Thinking
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Church Hands Thinking
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Decay Fickle Needs
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Guide Judging Men Party
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Done Law War
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Knowledge Mind Rewards
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Action Done Practice
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Garden Peace Spiritual
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Found Function Science
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Purpose
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

Drawing Prayer Spiritual
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
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Artist Better Lions
Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Calculation Hero Made
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Exercise Friends Love Men
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Inspirational Inspiring Motivational Sports
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Act Since Wish
Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Hands Hath Taming
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Believe Conviction Results

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