The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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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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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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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