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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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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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Time hath a taming hand.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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