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.
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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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From 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.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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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 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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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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