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.
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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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