Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANAll men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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