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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Memories Treatise Wisdom
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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Done Law War
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Evil Excess Substance
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
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.
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Guide Judging Men Party
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Judgment Matter Said
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Expression Style Thinking
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
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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Dear Lord Love Shining
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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God Love Voice
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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

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