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.
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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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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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Calculation never made a hero.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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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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