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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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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.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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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 act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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