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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.
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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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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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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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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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.
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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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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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