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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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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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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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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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 must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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