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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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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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