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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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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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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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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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