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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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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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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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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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.
John Henry Newman
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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.
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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.
John Henry Newman
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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