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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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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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