Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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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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