To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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