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John Henry Newman Quotes

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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  (John Henry Newman Quotes) There is in stillness oft a magic power to calm the breast, when struggling passions lower; touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise diviner feelings, kindred with the skies  (John Henry Newman Quotes) In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it  (John Henry Newman Quotes) There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor  (John Henry Newman Quotes) A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward  (John Henry Newman Quotes) 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  (John Henry Newman Quotes) True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers  (John Henry Newman Quotes) When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless  (John Henry Newman Quotes) A sea before the Throne is spread; - its pure still glass Pictures all Earth - scenes as they pass. We, on its shore, share, in the bosom of our rest, god's knowledge, and are blest  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in your passage through life. By the blessing of God this will prepare you for it  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it  (John Henry Newman Quotes) I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards  (John Henry Newman Quotes) It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no luster in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate  (John Henry Newman Quotes) With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event  (John Henry Newman Quotes) 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  (John Henry Newman Quotes) A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature  (John Henry Newman Quotes) It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain  (John Henry Newman Quotes) The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Virtue is it's own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue  (John Henry Newman Quotes) We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home - lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see the distant scene, one step enough for me  (John Henry Newman Quotes) And with the morn those angel faces smile which I have loved long since and lost awhile  (John Henry Newman Quotes) 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 safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!  (John Henry Newman Quotes) After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of it's owner and the skill of it's decorators, but he added, lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists  (John Henry Newman Quotes) Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life  (John Henry Newman Quotes) I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, pride ruled my will: remember not past years  (John Henry Newman Quotes) His soul was the home of hope, sustained and cheered by the certainties of his mind and the power of his faith. He was the mathematical genius of a great general, rather than of a great soldier. By this endowment he proved himself equal to the unexpected, and that with the precision of a seer  (John Henry Newman Quotes)
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