Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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 see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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