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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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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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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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