The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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