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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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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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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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