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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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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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