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Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
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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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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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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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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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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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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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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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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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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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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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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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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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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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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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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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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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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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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