"Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith,……" — John Henry Newman
"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."
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John Henry Newman
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96 Quotes by John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman has 96 quotes on this site.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has…
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its…
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of…
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the…
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has…
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite,…
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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us…
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A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth…
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More Devotion Quotes
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I…
— Teresa of Avila
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
— Mitch Albom
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction,…
— Eric Milner-White
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Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have…
— Hojo Shigetoki
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