There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
(1801 - 1890)
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion; I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
I sought to hear the voice of God And climbed the topmost steeple, But God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
