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.
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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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