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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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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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