Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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