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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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