I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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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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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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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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Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.
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