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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
John Henry Newman
Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
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