Time hath a taming hand.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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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.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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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 robes of those whose faces see God.
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