I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLearn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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From 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.
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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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