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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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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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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