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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.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Done Law War
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

Certainty Creeps Soar
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Dogma Fall Men
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Cures Evil Flagrant
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Drawing Prayer Spiritual
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Animal Religious Vegetarian
Calculation never made a hero.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Calculation Hero Made
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

God Love Voice
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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Depth Height Way
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Guide Judging Men Party
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Decay Fickle Needs
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Intellectual Knowledge Science
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

Dream Ideas Religion
It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Blessing Dream Sacrifice
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 NEWMAN

Beautiful Moral Perfect
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Fighting Shame Sin

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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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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