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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.
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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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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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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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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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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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.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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