Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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