There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANMen will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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