Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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