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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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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.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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