O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll 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.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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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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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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