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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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