I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANCruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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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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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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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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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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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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