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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMan is emphatically self-made.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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