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 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.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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There 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.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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