A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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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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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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