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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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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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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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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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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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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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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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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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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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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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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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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