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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

John Henry Newman

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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Passion Sky Struggle
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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Giving Inspire Religion
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Angel Condolences Sympathy
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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Bird Instruments Resources
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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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Judgment Matter Said
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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Given Missions Priceless
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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Blessing Dream Sacrifice
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
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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Guide Judging Men Party
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
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.
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Decision Reflection Want
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results

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