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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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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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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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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
John Henry Newman
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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