I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGod 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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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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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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 live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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