Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThere 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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