Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPrayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
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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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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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