I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAnd with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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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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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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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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