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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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