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.
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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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