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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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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
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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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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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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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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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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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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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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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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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