An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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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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