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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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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