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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.
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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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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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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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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