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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.
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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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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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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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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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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