Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANThe love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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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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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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Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
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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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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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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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