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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANEvery 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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