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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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 often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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