An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMen will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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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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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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