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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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