O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANGood 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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