Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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 man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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