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 NEWMANMan is emphatically self-made.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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