Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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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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.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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