And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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