Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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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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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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