Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPrayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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