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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.

John Henry Newman

Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Down Dwell People
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dream Ideas Religion
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Anxiety Detail Teacher
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Break Cost Sacrifice Through
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
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
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Intellectual Knowledge Science
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Cures Evil Flagrant
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Catholic Love Soul
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Animal Religious Vegetarian
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Men Perspective
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Aboriginal Christ Vicars
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dogma Fall Men
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Inspire Religion
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Artist Better Lions

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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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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