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.
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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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God 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.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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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.
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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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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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