Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANFrom 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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