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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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 as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
John Henry Newman
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
John Henry Newman
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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.
John Henry Newman
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
John Henry Newman
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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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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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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.
John Henry Newman
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
John Henry Newman
Time hath a taming hand.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
John Henry Newman
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
John Henry Newman
To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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