Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFrom the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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