Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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