And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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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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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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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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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.
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