Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
From John Henry Newman
Calculation never made a hero.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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