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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIf we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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