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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

John Henry Newman

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
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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.
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Drawing Prayer Spiritual
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self
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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Break Cost Sacrifice Through
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Given Missions Priceless
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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Beautiful Moral Perfect
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men

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