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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.
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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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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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Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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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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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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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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