Famous John Henry Cardinal Newman Quotations

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"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
"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."
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
"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."
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
"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."
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
"...there is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power, who have weapons neither of offence nor defense, that none but very hardened persons can endure the thought of it."
by Cardinal John Henry Newman
"Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God."
by Cardinal John Henry Newman
"Now what is it moves our very heart and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching. … There is something so dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power."
by Cardinal John Henry Newman


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