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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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.
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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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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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