We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANConscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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