Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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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.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Every 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.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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