It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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.
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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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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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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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