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.
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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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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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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