Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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