It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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