John Henry Newman Short Quotes

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To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

John Henry Newman
Where good and ill together blent,
Wage an undying strife.

John Henry Newman
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

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It is thy very energy of thought
Which keeps thee from thy God.

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

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Christian! hence learn to do thy part,
And leave the rest to Heaven.

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So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.

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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

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Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

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Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem [From shadows and symbols into the truth]!

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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

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The all-corroding, all-dissolving scepticism of the intellect in religious enquiries.

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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

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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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I loved the garish day, and spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

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And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

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A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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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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Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;
And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.

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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.

John Henry Newman