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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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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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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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