Man is emphatically self-made.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANLiterature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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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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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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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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