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 NEWMANMost people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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