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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.

John Henry Newman

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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Bird Instruments Resources
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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Done Law War
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Catholic Heaven Part
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
You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.
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Eye Religious Waiting
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Aboriginal Christ Vicars
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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Decay Fickle Needs
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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Giving Inspire Religion
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Certainty Creeps Soar
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
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
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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Days Holy Jesus Names
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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Comprehensive Infinite Reason Spiritual

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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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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