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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.
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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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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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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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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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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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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