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 NEWMANThere is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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