Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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