Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiving Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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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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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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