Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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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 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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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