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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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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one style is a thinking out into language.
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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