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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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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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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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