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John Henry Newman Quote: “Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.”

101. “Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “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 not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.”

102. “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 not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”

103. “If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.”

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

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “Ihre Geheimnisse sind nicht anderes als die in menschliche Sprache gekleideten Formeln von Wahrheiten, die der menschliche Geist nicht zu erfassen vermag.”

105. “Ihre Geheimnisse sind nicht anderes als die in menschliche Sprache gekleideten Formeln von Wahrheiten, die der menschliche Geist nicht zu erfassen vermag.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.”

106. “Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities. To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new.”

107. “The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities. To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “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.”

108. “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

John Henry Newman Quote: “The world is content with setting right the surface of things.”

109. “The world is content with setting right the surface of things.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.”

110. “To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you’r passage through life.”

111. “You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you’r passage through life.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “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.”

112. “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.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our.”

113. “What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.”

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

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.”

115. “The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.”

116. “If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.”

117. “Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it.”

118. “The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.”

119. “He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them.”

120. “Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “The profession and the developments of a doctrine are according to the emergency of the time, and silence at a certain period implies, not that it was not then held, but that it was not questioned.”

121. “The profession and the developments of a doctrine are according to the emergency of the time, and silence at a certain period implies, not that it was not then held, but that it was not questioned.”

— John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman Quote: “If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first – Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God’s glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.”

122. “If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first – Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God’s glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.”

— John Henry Newman

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