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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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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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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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.
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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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