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Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Newman

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Fighting Shame Sin
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
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Almighty Evolution Inconsistent Theory
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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Decision Reflection Want
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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Action Done Practice
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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Beautiful Moral Perfect
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Arguing Believe Men
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Art Beauty Nature
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Garden Peace Spiritual
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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Anxiety Detail Teacher
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
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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Drink Firsts Pope
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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Death might Years
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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Expression Style Thinking
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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Iron Teacher Winter
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Animal Religious Vegetarian
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Act Since Wish
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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Passion Sky Struggle
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
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
Time hath a taming hand.
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Hands Hath Taming
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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God Love Voice

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