All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGrowth is the only evidence of life.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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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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