Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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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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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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.
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