Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFlagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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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.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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