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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANSuch is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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A 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.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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