"When men understand what each other mean, they……" — John Henry Newman
"When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless"
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96 Quotes by John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman has 96 quotes on this site.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has…
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its…
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of…
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the…
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has…
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite,…
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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us…
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A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth…
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More Controversy Quotes
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
— Julian Assange
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who…
— Samuel Butler
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The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us…
— Dick Cheney
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
— Tertullian
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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