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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.

John Henry Newman

Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
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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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Drink Firsts Pope
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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Action Done Practice
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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Angel Beautiful Light
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Change Life Spiritual
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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Intellectual Knowledge Science
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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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Drawing Prayer Spiritual
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.
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Church Hands Thinking
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Bird Instruments Resources
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Found Function Science
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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Decision Reflection Want
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice

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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