There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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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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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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