Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANO loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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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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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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