We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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It’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.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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