Quote#Nature
We attain to heaven by using this world well, though it is to pass…
Quote byJohn Henry Newman · 1801–1890
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Idea of a University (1873), Discourse V, pt. 10.
English (original)
We attain to heaven by using this world well, though it is to pass away; we perfect our nature, not by undoing it, but by adding to it what is more than nature, and directing it towards aims higher than its own.
— John Henry Newman
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