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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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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.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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