Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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