To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGo down again – I dwell among the people.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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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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