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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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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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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 in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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