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.
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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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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 holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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