Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANTo live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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