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John Henry Newman Inspirational Quotes (72)

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Virtue is its 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.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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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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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.
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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