Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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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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Life 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.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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