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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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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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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 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 God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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