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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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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. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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