I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANBy a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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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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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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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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