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.
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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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