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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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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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