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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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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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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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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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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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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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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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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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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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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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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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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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When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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