It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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You 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.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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