Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANSomehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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