Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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