There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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