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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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 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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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