You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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