If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvery breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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