We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPrayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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Life 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.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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