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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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