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 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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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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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