It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANPurity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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