A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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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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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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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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