Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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