To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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.
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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