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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiterature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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