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.
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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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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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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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