A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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