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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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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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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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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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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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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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