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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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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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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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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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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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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