Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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