Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThis 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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