Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThis 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Let 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.
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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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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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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