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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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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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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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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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