It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANA science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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