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John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
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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Doe Guilt Responsibility
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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Action Done Practice
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
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
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
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
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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Angel Beautiful Light
Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Positive
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
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 NEWMAN

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

Down Dwell People

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