O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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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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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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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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