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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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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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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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