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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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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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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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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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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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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