(30 quotes found)
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
John Henry 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.”
“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.”
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”
“Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.”
“To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.”
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.”
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”
“There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.”
“And with the morn those angel faces smile/ Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.”
