To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
JOHN HENRY NEWMANI see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
More John Henry Newman Quotes
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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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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Man is emphatically self-made.
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How many writers are there… who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel’s) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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