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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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