Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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Good 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.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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How 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.
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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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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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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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