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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.
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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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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