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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.

John Henry Newman

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Remuneration Treasure Years
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Depth Height Way
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Judgment Matter Said
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Done Law War
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Inspirational Wish
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 NEWMAN

Drawing Prayer Spiritual
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Mother Religious Today
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Down Dwell People
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Artist Better Lions
Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Calculation Hero Made
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Anxiety Detail Teacher
Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Bird Instruments Resources
I 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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Death might Years
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Found Function Science
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Change Life Spiritual

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.

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