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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

John Henry Newman

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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Beautiful Moral Perfect
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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Judgment Matter Said
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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Action Done Practice
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Enquiry Modesty Religious
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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Expression Style Thinking
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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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Anxiety Detail Teacher
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Iron Teacher Winter
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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Guide Judging Men Party
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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God Love Voice
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
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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Depth Height Way
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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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Decision Reflection Want

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