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 NEWMANIt’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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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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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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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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