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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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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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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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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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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 be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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