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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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