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Time hath a taming hand.

John Henry Newman

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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Giving Inspire Religion
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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Eye Religious Waiting
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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Death might Years
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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Decay Fickle Needs
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Enquiry Modesty Religious
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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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
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
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Angel Condolences Sympathy
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian

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