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.
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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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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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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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