Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTime hath a taming hand.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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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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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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