You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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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’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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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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