A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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