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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith 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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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