Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMen will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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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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