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 NEWMANYou must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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’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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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