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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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 toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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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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