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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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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.
John Henry Newman
Time hath a taming hand.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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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.
John Henry Newman
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
John Henry Newman
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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