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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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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