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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.

John Henry Newman

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Arguments People Sympathies
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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Evil Excess Substance
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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Dear Lord Love Shining
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
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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Judgment Matter Said
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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Knowledge Mind Rewards
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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Fighting Shame Sin
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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Intellectual Knowledge Science
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Attitude Friends Inspirational
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Memories Treatise Wisdom
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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Change Inspirational Wish
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Life Pain Success
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
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Esteem Giving Needs Self

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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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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