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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWhen you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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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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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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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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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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