Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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