Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANConscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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