Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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