Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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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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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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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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