I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiterature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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