John Henry Newman Quotes

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• Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
• 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…
• Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
• Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
• 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…
• 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…
• Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
• Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
• 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…
• The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they…
• O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart…
• A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet…
• Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
• To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.
• 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…
• It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on…
• It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
• You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
• Calculation never made a hero.
• God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is…

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