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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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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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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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