Man is emphatically self-made.
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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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