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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
John Henry Newman
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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Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
John Henry Newman
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
John Henry Newman
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.
John Henry Newman
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.
John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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.
John Henry Newman
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.
John Henry Newman
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
John Henry Newman
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
John Henry Newman
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
John Henry Newman