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The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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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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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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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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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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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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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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