Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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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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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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