It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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