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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANHow many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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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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