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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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