An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI 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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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