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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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