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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Wisdom
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Love
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Brainy
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Change
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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
Collection: Religion
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Fear
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Life
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Wisdom
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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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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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 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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Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
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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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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Ability is sexless.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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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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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Work
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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.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Love Is
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Self Esteem
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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Sorrow
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Love
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Spiritual
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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.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Long
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Saint
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God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Medicine
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Needs
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There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Perseverance
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Heaven
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Protestants
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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 Newman
Collection: Beautiful
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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.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Priceless
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Practice
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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.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Religious
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Firsts
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Inspirational
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
- John Henry Newman
Collection: Mother

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