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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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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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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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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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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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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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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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