Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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