Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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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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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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