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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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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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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.
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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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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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