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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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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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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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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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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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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
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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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Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
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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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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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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.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature it is his history.
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How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
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It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
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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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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
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Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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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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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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