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John Henry Newman Inspirational Quotes (72)

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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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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.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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