Growth is the only evidence of life.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMen will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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