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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMost people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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