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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLife passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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