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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
John Henry Newman
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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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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.
John Henry Newman
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.
John Henry Newman
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.
John Henry Newman
