To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPraise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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