Loss and gain [by J.H. Newman].

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Página 94 - From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But...
Página 94 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, Eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace.
Página 219 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Página 291 - Quickly they go, for they are awful words of sacrifice, they are a work too great to delay upon, as when it was said in the beginning, " What thou doest, do quickly." Quickly they pass, for the Lord Jesus goes with them, as He passed along the lake in the days of his flesh, quickly calling first one and then another; quickly they pass, because as the lightning which shineth from one part of the heaven unto the other, so is the coming of the Son of Man. Quickly they pass, for they are as the words...
Página 314 - ... with folded arms, unable to proceed. Each college, each church, he counted them by their pinnacles and turrets. The silver Isis, the grey willows, the farstretching plains, the dark groves, the distant range of Shotover, the pleasant village where he had lived with Carlton and Sheffield — wood, water, stone, all so calm, so bright, they might have been his, but his they were not. Whatever he was to gain by becoming a Catholic, this he had lost ; whatever he was to gain higher and better, at...
Página 213 - THE Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping, and adoration, as well of images, as of reliques, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God.
Página 16 - Even so, who loves the Lord aright, No soul of man can worthless find ; All will be precious in his sight, Since Christ on all hath shined. But chiefly Christian souls ; for they, Though worn and soiled with sinful clay, Are yet, to eyes that see them true, All glistening with baptismal dew.
Página 17 - When we ourselves were young, we once on a time walked on a hot summer-day from Oxford to Newington — a dull road, as any one who has gone it knows ; yet it was new to us ; and we protest to you, reader, believe it or not, laugh or not, as you will, to us it seemed on that occasion quite touchingly beautiful ; and a soft melancholy came over us, of which the shadows fall even now, when we look back upon that dusty, weary journey. And why ? because every object which met us was unknown and full...
Página 292 - Each in his place, with his own heart, with his own wants, with his own thoughts, with his own intention, with his own prayers, separate but concordant, watching what is going on, watching its progress, uniting in its consummation ; — not painfully and hopelessly following a hard form of prayer from beginning to end, but like a concert of musical instruments, each different, but concurring in a sweet harmony, we take our part with God's priest, supporting him, yet guided by him.
Página 9 - Let us pray.' •Presently he brought out," continued Sheffield, assuming a pompous and up-and-down tone, " ' especially for that pure and apostolic branch of it established,' — here the man rose on his toes, ' established in these dominions.' Next came, ' for our Sovereign Lady Victoria, Queen, Defender of the Faith, in all causes and over all persons, ecclesiastical as well as civil...

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