O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGrowth is the only evidence of life.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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