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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

John Henry Newman

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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Beautiful Moral Perfect
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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Church Hands Thinking
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
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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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
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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Anxiety Detail Teacher
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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Decision Reflection Want
Calculation never made a hero.
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Calculation Hero Made
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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Given Missions Priceless
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Drink Firsts Pope
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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Believe Conviction Results
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
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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Remuneration Treasure Years
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
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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Angel Beautiful Light
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Expression Style Thinking
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
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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Drawing Prayer Spiritual

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

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