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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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