I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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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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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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