It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt’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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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