All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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