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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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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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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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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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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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