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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.
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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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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