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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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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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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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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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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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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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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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.
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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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