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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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 often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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