Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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