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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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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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 almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Time hath a taming hand.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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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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