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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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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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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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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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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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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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 should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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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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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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