Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFlagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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