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.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANIt is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
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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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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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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
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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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This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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