Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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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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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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 man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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