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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Doe Guilt Responsibility
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dark Light
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Faith Hazards Sacrifice
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Depth Height Way
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

God Love Voice
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Cures Evil Flagrant
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Church Hands Thinking
Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Positive
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Evil Excess Substance
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Iron Teacher Winter
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Arguments People Sympathies
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Knowledge Mind Rewards
I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Death might Years
Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Hands Hath Taming
Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Calculation Hero Made

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