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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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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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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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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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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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 be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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