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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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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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