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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

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Days Holy Jesus Names
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
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Enquiry Modesty Religious
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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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
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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God Love Voice
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom
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
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Fighting Shame Sin
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Beautiful Moral Perfect

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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