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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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Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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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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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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Time hath a taming hand.
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Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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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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