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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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.
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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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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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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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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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