A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFaith 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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