The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
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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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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Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
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Man is emphatically self-made.
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It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
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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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I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Dear Lord…shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul…Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Growth is the only evidence of life.
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