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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.
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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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