Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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