Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLet 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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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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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.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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