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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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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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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear 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.
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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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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 ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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