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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANA man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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