I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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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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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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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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