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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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.
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