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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.

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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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